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3SE. CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES j?J \ A Mar gar of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (EsUWUi^d IMS) ud THE TWIN CITY TIMES (E>tabluh*d 1936) 38th YEAR, No. 27 TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAyT APRIL 12, 1949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS J Senate Bill 420 Would Outlaw Pari-Mutuel Betting in State Boatmen Enthused About Proposed Carteret Statkm Reception to the idea of obtain ing a radio-telephone station in this area is very good, according to Dan Walker, manager of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Walker and George East man, radio-telephone committee chairman, made a trip to eastern Carteret county and said that per sons they contacted were encoura ged and enthusiastic over the pros pects of getting a station located where Carteret county vessels may receive fullest use of its facilities. Mr. Walker urged that all per sons having short wave radio sets send in their telephone service registration sheets to either the Beaufort or Morehead City Cham ber of Commerce in this area or to Mr. Eastman, Beaufort. He added that the more applications receiv ed, the better the possibility of ob taining a station for this area. He emphasized that radios need only a Charleston crystal to send and receive through the proposed station. Mr. Walker and Mr. Eastman left application blanks for marine ra dio service at the following places: Herbert Styron's store. Roe; Clay ton Fulcncr's, Cecil Morris's, Wins ton Hill's, Atlantic; Alvah Tay lor's Sea Level; T. B. Smith. Da vis. Gerald Davis, Marshallberg, and S. W. Davis and Brothers, Harkers Island. The application blanks are also available from David Beveridge, Beaufort; Eastman Furniture com pany, Beaufort, and at the Beau fort Chamber of Commerce. In Morehead City they can be had at Belhaven Fish and Oyster com pany. Morehead City Yacht Basin, and the Chamber of Commerce office. The Morehead City Boatmen's association will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Morehead City Munici pal building. This is to be an organizational meeting and officers will he elected. Plans for the sec ond annual Sports Fish roundup will be discussed. . A bill to outlaw all pari-mutuel betting in the State was introduced in the Senate Friday morning al most simultaneously as the legis lature passed bills authorizing an election in Pasquotank county on pari-mutuel gambling at a horse track and similar gambling at a dog track in New Hanover. If passed, this bill, No. 420. would 1c all probability, spell the end to the operation of the dog track west of Morehead City opera ted by the Carolina Racing associa tion. Both the Pasquotank and New Hanover bills must go through an other reading in the Senate. The Pasquotank bill then will become law, but the New Hanover meas ure still must run the gauntlet of the House. Senator "R. N. Simms, Jr., of Wake introduced the anti-gambling measure. Applying to numbers rackets and slot machines as well aj> to pari mutuels. the Simms bill would re pea) all laws, public or local, which might permit such forms of gamb ling. Joining with Simms in introduc tion of the measure were Sens. J. Hampton Price of Rockingham. F. D. Long of Person, Hardy Talton of Wayne, Charles 0. Dalton of Rutherford, Lee Weathers of Cleveland, L. B. Nichols of Chero kee. Julian Allsbrook of Halifax and R. J. Hester, Jr., of Bladen. Lieutenant-Governor H. P. Tay lor first assigned the bill to propo sitions and grievances, then at the request of Senator Simms re-as signed it to judiciary 2. where it is conceded a better chance of re ceiving a favorable report. Veterans Favor Legion Park Site Members of the executive com mittee of the Beaufort housing group, recently named by the Tidewater Veterans Housing cor poration, ?re seriously considering the site of the American Legion "hall park" off Lennoxville road east of highway 70. I The executive committee met Friday night in the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce offices in the town hall and considered a ! total of four sites near Beaufort See VETEKANS page 3 Basic Facts of Growth Hold Secret of Cancer Detail King Hotel Will Open This Widmi, Apr. 16 Announcement of opening dates for hotels on Atlantic Beach for the 1949 season have been an nounced here today, by the More head City Chamber of Commerce. First to open will be the Ocean King under management of Bud Dixon. This boardwalk hotel will formally open for reception of guests Easter week end, but its dining room wil lnot open until May 15. The Atlantic Beach hotel, long est established hostelry at the ocean resort, will b% a formally opened on a date to be announced between May 1 and May 16. C.ourie's Villa and the Villa Queen at Money Island Beach will also open early in May and the Ocean Drive on Fort Macon Road will be ready for guests on or about May 30. In the meantime mid-spring va cationists are stopping at The Jef fcrson, under management of A1 Dewey or The Fort Macon Hotel under management of John Brid get's. Each of these Morehead City hotels remains open the year around. PNA CoauuttMam la Hart JU 9:38 Tmmrvw Morniaf All county god community Pro duction Marketing administration committeemen will meet in the Beaufort court house tomorrow morning at 9:30 to discuss the procedure to be followed In av semhling crop data for use in de termining future acreage allot ment*. particularly 1M9 wheat and 1850 cotton allotments Delegates at the meeting will also discuss agricultural conserva tion practices needed on farms in Carteret county in the 1*90 PMA program. Similar meetings are be ing held in the over 3.000 other agricultural counties in the United States. Representatives of other county agricultural agencies will be pre sent. Scores of scientists throughout the United States, working under American Cancer Society grants, are shaking down the ancient scc rets of growth ? normal growth and growth gone wrong. With more than $9,000,000 of the Society's (funds allocated to this research so far, considerable progress has been made in a dozen different scientific fields. Surgery and radiation remain the only sure cures for cancer; but even the hopelessly advanced cases have been enabled to live longer ? in comfort and usefulness. More important than the help being given the present day pa tient is the hope held for the 18,000,000 others now alive who will die of cancer unless control measures are devised. Important discoveries in all likelihood will come from basic research into the factors controlling growth ? en zymes, hormones, vitamins, habits, viruses, infectuous organisms of all sorts. One* the basic facts of cancer are known, the world will come upon an era of health and poten tial prosperity. The age of growth control will may be more revolu tionary than the age of the split atom. Under growth control : The chemistry of most diseases can be reveraed; Infectuous diseases will be cop trolled; Wounds and sores will heal rap idly and sorely; Physical and mental monsters will be r?re; The products of the earth will ,b? more abundrit than man now dreamt possible; The world will be a better, hap pier place? if the epirita of men can keep pace with technological advances. Support research! Give today U> the American Cancer Society! According to men in the field, ?ore salesmen earn $10,000 or ?ore a year than do members of any other profeesioa. Hum Morshsad Citi^ns To Attend 'Ports' Dinner Three Morehead City resi dents will attend a testimonial dinner at Wilmington tonight in honor of persons responsible lor the recent passage of the $7.- ] 500,000 state ports bill. Dr. Ben F. Royal, Dr. John W. Morris, and Robert G. Lowe have been invited to attend. The text of the letter inviting them follows: "On Tuesday night, April 12, 7 o'clock, a few Wilmingtonians desire to honor Colonel George W. Gillette, you and other lead ers, who played an important | part in helping to make possible the State Ports bill for ware houses and terminals at More head City and Wilmington, North Carolina, at a dinner to be held at the Cape Fear Club, Wil mington. We believe that the passage of this bill will mean ! more to the growth and progress 'of North Carolina as a whole than anything the Legislature has done in the past quarter of a century." The letter was signed E. L. White, mayor. Chamber Ends Channels Survey The Beaufort Chillier of Com merce has just completed a two months' survey of buoys and channels in this area relative to recommending; any changes or in spallations, that may have to be made, Dan Wallqer, of the chamber announced today. R. Hugh Mill of Beaufort has made the survey of larger draft vessels. Over a period of two months he mailed out inquiries to | captains of vessels plying local waters. The majority of the re plies stressed three main changes ? the installation of a bell or whistling buoy at Beaufort bar, the deepening of Oregon Inlet, and the deepening of Wallace Channel. The primary purpose of the survey was to make recommenda tions to the national Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington last week. W. H. Potter of Beau fort attended the congress and presented the recommendations of the chamber. Plans for making changes or installations are in the form ative stage and Mr. Walker stated that progress made will be report- ; ed to the public immediately. Bivers, Harbors Congress Approves Channel Depths The National Rivers and Har bors Congress gave its approval in Washington last week to the per manent project of maintaining the channel from port terminal at Morehead City to the ocean at a depth of 30 feet. The Congress also heard testimony by local dele gates requesting that the depth of the channel be increased to 35 feet and approved the testimony. It recommended that the Army Engineers make a survey of the situation and make a favorable report back to Congress. Approval b f the Army Engineers of a project to nfaintain Taylor's Creek at a depth of 12 feet was also given at the meeting. Work on beginning the maintenance will begin as soon as the Secretary of the Army refers the matter to the Rivers and Harbors committee of Congress and Congress approves the measure. Wallace Channel will receive emergency dredging that will make its depth 12 feet. Permanent ap proval of the Congress of Rivers and Harbors will provide regular maintenance of the channel at this depth but approval can not be received before its meeting next year. Baaifavt Seniors Main $261 h Annual Clan Play A full housr turned out Friday night at the Beayfort higH school to see the senior clans annual pl*y, "Ann, What's Her Name?" All present enjoyed the pity in cluding the senior* who either acted in the play or worked back ,Ufc seniors will purchase a gift to leave to the sehool before gr?d uation with the $281 profit. Bay Frances Mattel I won a prize of f 1 by selling the largest number of tickets. * Following the play, the seniors presented Mis* Lena Duncan, their adviser and play director, with two dozen red rotas. Beaufort Board Schedules Special Meeting May 11 Commissioners Will Con sider Adoption oi Or dinance Extending Limits The board of commissioners of Beaufort will hold a special meet ing at 7:30 Wednesday night, May 11, in the town hall to consider the adoption of an ordinance an nexing Piver's Island, Inlet Island and other property south of the causeway as far west as Newport liver, also property on the north side of the causeway to Newport river. This property will encompass approximately 50 dwelling places and about 10 places of business, including Machine and Supply company, radio station WMBL, service stations and tourist camps along the causeway. As part of the town of Beau fort, this area will receive tire protection, police protection and will have garbage collected by Beaufort town crews. A resolution on the proposed annexation was adopted at this month's meeting of the board of commissioners. Should persons in this area pre sent a petition bearing the signa tures of 15 per cent of the resi dents asking that the proposed annexation by submitted to the people in an election, an election will be held. Or if 15 per cent of I the qualified voters within the town i of Beaufort sign a petition re questing an election, an election will be held. The exact metes and bounds of the land proposed for annexatton I are described in the legal notice, I "Extension of City Limits, Town | of Beaufort, N. C." which appears j in today's paper. John L Best Serves Aboard Landing Hup ! John E. Best, seaman, USN, son ! of Mr. and Mrs. Geu?jce JJest of 2(17 Marsh at., Beauft^ j reported aboard the landing ship USS 517 which has completed a cruise in the Caribbean Sea on Atlantic Fleet exercises. Liberty and recreation was af .forded the crew at Guadaloupe ; j | Saint Thomas, Virgin Island; Kingston, Jamaica; and Guanta namo Bay, Cuba. Best, who' entered the Naval j service Jan. 15, 1948, received his ; | recruit training at the Naval ! Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. | NEWS BBIEFS The Beaufort Chamber o( Com merce is making preparations to hold outboard motor boat races in Beaufort this summer. No date has been set for the races since the chamber is awaiting publica tion of the revised edition of the handicap racing manual of the Outboard Boating Club of Ameri ca. This manual contains the na tional rules, regulations, and clas sifications that the Beaufort races will be run by. The tobacco acreagc allotment for Lionel Pelletier, Pelletier, is 30. ti acres for 1949. He is the only grower in Carteret county of more than 25 acres bright leaf tobacco'. The Carteret county 4-H service club will meet at 7 :.'10 tonight in the home demonstration agent's office, court house annex. Edward .C. Willis, 1530 Ann street, Beaufort, has been appoint ed agent for the Karm Bureau insurance companies. The North' River Home Demon stration club will meet at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Paul Beachem. The demonstration will be "Packaging Frozen Foods." The Markers Island Electric Membership corporation was re cently granted a <10,000 loan through the Rural Electrification administration, Washington, D. C. The juniors of Atlantic high school will entertain the seniors at a reception Friday night, April 22. A dance will follow in the gymnasium. House bill 1200, authorizing an increase In the salaries of the clerk of court, the register of deeds, and the sheriff, has keen passed by the house and was sent Saturday to the Senate committee on sal aries and fees. Morehead City firemen were called out at 8:30 Friday after noon .to extinguish ? bru.h Are in the 3000 block of Evans street. The fire was of little consequence and was extinguished in lest than 10 minutes. Madix Corporation Gets Permission To Reorganize From Federal Judge Judge Don Gilliam of Tarboro, federal judge for the eastern Carolina district, signed an order in federal court late Thursday permitting the reorganization of the Madix Asphalt Roofing Cor poration. ?lnc., of Morehead City, under a debtor's petition for relief under the bankruptcy act. W. H. Potter, Beaufort, And S. A. Chalk, Morehead City, were appointed by the jurist as trustees for the company. They are operat ing the plant. Willis Smith, of Iialeigh, was named as their at torney. Their bonds were set at $10,000 each. A Winston Salem firm was named as auditor. A hearing of creditors was set in the order for 10:30 a. m. May 16 at Tarboro, to hear any objec tions to the retention of these trustees. The judge instructed the trustees to notify all creditors of this hearing before Thursday, April 14. Notice of the hearing appears in today's paper under "Legal Notices." It was emphasized by George McNeill, Madix attorney, and oth era representing the company that this is not a bankruptcy proceed- 1 ing. * The concern has not been able to meet all its debts upon ma turity, the petition states, and the reorganization of the corporation is thus requested as permitted by federal statute. Recreation Group Plaos Summer The Beaufort Recreation com mitcee and heads of civic organi zations of Beaufort met Friday night at the home of Dr. W. L. Woodard to make plans for the summer recreational program for Bcanf''rt and surrounding com-, munil.es. WilHaui KitryU who directed the I-C?UmUO|imi pi) air JtH summer, will not return to Beau fort this summdr because he will attend summer school to take a number of courses which are not taught during the fall term. The Recreational committoe has several directors under considera tion which they feel will be well qualified to handle the recreation al program during the summer months. R. M. Williams, chairman of the Recreational committee, stated this morning that one of the most ur gent needs at present is sufficient mohey to fi nance the program this summer. With the full support of every parent and all those inter ested in promoting a well-planned and supervised rcci'eational pro gram, it is believed that this part of the program will be taken carc of, he added. Horehead Cuy Lions Flak* $278.20 on Talon! Shows Morchcad City Lions realized a profit of $278.20 on their recent talent search programs, according to Uons President Dave Battle Webb. A total of $550.45 was taken in from the five preliminary talent search programs and the final in Beaufort. From this figure $225 for prizes and $47.25 for other expenses had to be deducted leav ing $278 20. No definite decision has been made as yet on the disposition of the talent search proceeds, how ever, a check for $50 has already been dbnated to the Carteret coun ty recreation center in Morehcad City. Throo Pload Guilty To Vandalism Charges Three defendants, Adolph Phil lips, Mack Carney, and Paul Morris, all of Swansboro, pleaded guilty to charges of vandalism and paid a $35 fine and costs in lieu of 35 days in jail at yesterday's session of mayor's court in More head City municipal building. The three, who were reported to be drinking Saturday night, were said to have stolen a large pottery vase, 25 bricks, and nu merous other strange articles on a round Saturday night, ending up with swiping a bull dog. Henry Jones pleaded guilt to public drunkenness charger and paid a $20 fine and costs. George Collins, charged with public drunk enncss, failed to appear in court and his bond waa forfaited. Natives of Bikini, who moved to permit the bomb test, have finally found a permanent home on the island of Kili, 500 nulea southwest of Bikini. High Officials Will Attend Coast Guard Award Dinner State to Sell Camp Glenn Property to A & NC Railroad The State Board of Conserva tion ana development has voted to sell 18.8 acres of the old Camp Glenn property to the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad com pany to be used as a site for ware houses in connection with the port development at Morehead City. ; The property will be sold for $5, 400 The board was told that the Flue Cured Tobacco Cooperative | Stabilization corporation plans an initial development of warehouse ! facilities at the port capable of | storing 75,000 hogsheads of tobac co. None of the Camp Glenn pro perty will contain any of the build ings or developments made by the Navy during the war. The state will still retain the 35 acres on which stands the Morehead City Technical Institute and the In stitute of Fisheries Research. L. T. Weeks, director of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization corporation, admitted he had talk ed with railroad officials on a ten tative basis about the possibility of building facilities on the pro perty, but added that his organiza tion has no immediate plans. A bill authorizing a $7,500,000 bond issue for the purpose of de veloping the state's ports at More head City and Wilmington was passed by the State Senate in Ra leigh without a dissenting vote. Meanwhile the House passed and sent to the Senate a bill increasing the membership of the State Ports Authority from seven to nine. The measure would also remove a re quirement that Carteret, New Han over. aiyt Brunswick counties be represented In the membership. The ports bond bill authorizes a bond issue to which the full cre ' dit of the State Is pledged but provides for paying back the bonds from a sinking fund into which profits, if any, from the ports operation will be paid. About $2, 500.000 is to be used to develop facilities at Morehead City and the other $5,000,000 at Wilmington. Under the mammoth expansion plans for development of North Carolina's two main porta, the State-controlled A. and N. C. rail road and the A. and E. C. railroad, which leases and operates it, arc expected to benefit substantially from their rail connections from Morehead City to Goldsboro. The Camp Glenn property, used as a section base by the navy dur ing World War II, was owned be fore the war by the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad. It was sold to the government for $15,000, though the company had higher offers from private firms. After the war the State Department of Con servation and Development pur chased the property, with its num erous buildings erected by the navy, for $87,000. C. E. Atkinson Joins Fisheries Institute Staff Clinton E. Atkinson, chief of the middle Atlantic Division of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Wash ington. D. C., has arrived at the Institute ?1 Fisheries Research, Morehead City, to assist in the organization of the shrimp and finfish program. Dr. William Ellison, director of the Institute, said, "This is a fine gesture on th<; part of the Fish and Wildlife service. They are giving us Mr. Atkinson's services free of charge." Dr. Ellison added that Mr. At kinson's vast experience in shrimp and finfish work will give the institute the advantage of much knowledge in that field which has never been published. The executive board of the in stitute of Fisheries Research met Friday. Those present were Dr. R. E. Coker, chairman of the board. Dr. Rex Winslow, University of North Carolina, Dr. Donald P. Cos tello, chairman of the department of toology and Keenan professor. Chapel Hill. Dr. Harden Taylor, New York City, and Roy Hampton, vice-chairman of the Board of Conservation and Development, of Plymouth, * i Dr. Orison reported that At Chestnut, oyster specialist iwth the Institute, left yesterday morn ing on the Cape Fear at the request of the State Board of Conservation and Development to select grounds for spring oyster planting. The planting will begin in about a week. Mr. Chestnut will return Thursday. The Penny, vessel being used in the offshore shrimp survey, will move next week to Southport where she will be until the latter part of May. ride Table HIGH low Tucidijr, April 12 7:27 ?.m 1:19 a.m. 7:47 p.m. 1:33 p.OT. WWxilir, April 13 8:18 ?.m 2:10 ?.m. 8:37 p.m 2:19 p.m. Thursday, April 14 9:04 ? in 3:00 a.m. 9:27 p.m. 3:05 p.m. Friday, April IS 9:52 a.m. ....^ 3:51 a.m. 10:16 p.m. 3:53 pjn. Merchants Association Head Speaks to Morehead Rotarians Bernard Lcary, president of the Morehead City Merchants asaocia tion, hpokc to Morehead City Ro tarians Thursday night on the aims and endeavorH of the Mcr chants aHsociation. The Rotarians met at the Carteret County Rec reation Center. Mr. Leary explained that the association was organized prima rily to promote Morehead City as a shopping center and combine the activities of Morehead City nierchant* on a cooperative basis. Since its inception it has brought about a mutual agreement on holi days and operational hours of the Various classifications of business es in Morehead City. The Merchants association aUo has promoted two successful Dol lar l)ays in which the entire town participated. "The Dollar Day* brought new shopping blood into town," Mr. Leary stated. The association president ex plained that his group was a non dues paying organization and that it is open to any and all merchants in Morehead City. One of its en. deavora Is tov cut down on ant-of town spending by offering greater values and lower prices' in Mora head City, he said. Mr. Leary cloaedf by saying that a great deal of interest bad been bhown in the Merchants association and that ha feels it will be An aaaet to the merchants and the town. Harktri bland Javccn Ekct Officers (or 1949 Harkers bland Jaycees recently elected new officers, choosing Gor don Willis as president. He suc ceeds Willard Willis who now holds the office of first vice-president. Other officers are as follows: Leslie G. Guthrie, second vice president; Maxwell Willis, becre tary; James E. Moore, treasurer; Shuford Guthrie, publicity and corresponding secretary. Thirty-three distinguished guest* ?re expected Thursday night when the Jottephus Daniels memorial ia presented to the Fort Macon Coaat Guard and surf boat crew. Tha presentation will take place at the Blue Ribbon club, west of More* head City, at 7 o'clock Thursday night. The Morehead Ctiy Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce are co-sponsors of the affair. The surf boat crew won the award last August in Competition at Cape Hatters but difficulties* have pre vented its presentation before now. Admission to the dinner ia $1.50 and the general public ia> invited. Special guests include Common dore J. E. Whitbeck, commandant of the Coast Guard in thiis area, his aides, chief of staff, and other officers of his staff. Captain Stan ley C. Linholm, commandant of the air station at Elizabeth City and his aides have also been in vited. Group commanders are expected from Chincoteague, Va., Virginia Beach, Va., Rodanthe, Ocracoke, and Morehead City. The com manders of the Coast Guard cut ters at Wilmington, Elizabeth City, and New Bern have been invited. Vice - Admiral James Farley, commandant of the Coast Guard, and Rear Admiral Merlin O'Neill, assistant to the commandant, are expected to attend. It is hoped that Major-General Field Ilarria and Brigadier General Ivan Miller of Cherry Point and Major-Gen eral Franklin Hart of Camp Le jeune will also be present. Governor Kerr Scott cannot be present. However, members of the Josephus Daniels family will be here. Members of the press in vited include Ben Dixon WcftyJl, of Buxton, Drm Bishop, preanjijteYtt for the National Broadcasting company, and The Carteret Coun ty NEWS-TIMES. Atlantic Win Every Ball Cam Tkis Saa son Atlantic school baseball team,, coached by Mack Barficld, princi pal, has won every game thus far this season. Members of the baseball squad are John Hamilton, Jack Rose, | Roscoe Salter, Milton Smith, Rod ney Smith, Charles Fulcher, Ber j nard Nelson. Riehard Lupton, Julian Willis, Albert Nelson, Makely Salter, Jack Lewis, and Ronald Daniels. Members of the board of direc tors arc R. J. Chadwick, David Yeomans, Luther D. Yeomans, and Lloyd Guthrie. i ? Lions AtionJ Mooting At For! Macon Hotel Morehead City Lions attended a short dinner meeting: Friday night in the Fort Macon Hotel dining room. . ? D. G. Bell extended all Lion^ and their ladies a cordial invita* tion to attend the dinner and pre4 sentation of the Josephus Daniels Memorial trophy that is to be helq Tuesday night at the Blue Ribbori club. The meeting adjourned early ir order that the Lions could atten< the senior play at the Morehea< City high school. The board of directors of the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce will meet today at 12:46 at the Carteret County Recreation Center. New officers will be elect ed, the coming year's budget and the membership campaign will be discussed. or couse ym coumt ?EACH US m NHEHU1 CRT TOTniAT! Oor Phone Nunber Has Been CHANGED TO H 8611 and M8S21
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