"Si: CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES A Merser of THE BEAUFORT NEWS (Established 1912) and THE TWIN CITY TIMES (Established 1936) 88TH YEAR, NO. 45 ~ EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA^ - TUESDAY, JUNE 14,"l949 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS A. W. Stinson , Assistant Farm Agent Will Begin Work in County July 1 Demonstration Clubs to Sponsor Show June 23 County Council Will Stage Annual Dress Revue, Flo wer Show The county council of home demonstration clubs will sponsor a flower show and dress revue Thursday, June 23, in the recrea tion center, Morehead City. Judging of flower entries will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. and judging of the dress revue will be *froin 7 to 8 p.m. First' and second place ribbons will be awarded in the flower show and first place ribbons for dresses. The four classes under which flowers may be entered are as fpllows: class A ? best arrange ment by a home demonstration club; class B ? cut flowers, best specimen of rose, lily, pansy, sweet William, petunia, scabiosa, nastur tium, zinnia, snap' dragon, gladi oia, hydrangea, etc.; best arrange ment of any of the foregoing flowers; best arrangement of wild flowers or native shrubbery; best arrangement of mixed flowers. Class C ? potted plants; best specimen of begonia, castus, fern, snake plant, geranium, African violet, etc. ; Class D ? individual arrangement or idea created by a club member. Classes in the dress revue will be as follows: Class A- ? best gar ment by a home demonstration club member, dressy dress, sport dress, house dress, restyled dress, flour bag dress. Class B ? best garment by 4-H club member, dressy dress, sport dress or playsuit, evening dress; Class C ? best individual child's dress.* .^Lules for the flowoy show ?tate that all exhibits ravst be in thi recreation center by 6 p.m.; all containers must be marked on the bottom with the owner's name; each exhibitor must bring her own container; judges will select win ners from 6 to 7 p.m. 'with their decisions being final; the show will be open to the public from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Persons modeling dresses must be at the recreation center by 7 p.m. Judging will be from 7 to 8. Dr. Erwin Okays Carteret Plan F A letter from Dr. Clyde A. Er win, state superintendent of public instruction, giving his approval of the recently adopted achool com mitteemen plan in the county was read at the recent meeting of the county board of education. The new plan allows for the stagger ing of appointments of committee men so that each year a third of the committee members retire and another third is appointed to fill vacant positions. Members of the board discussed plans for school improvements now that the school bond issue has been approved. Available funds will total $378,475, *128,475 coming from bond issue funds and *250, 000 coming trom funds appropria ted by the 1949 Legislature. It was decided that no definite plans should be made until the funds A tentative school calendar was adopted for the iM9;50 school ye?r. School will open September 1 and close May 28 with the Christ mas holiday falling from Decem ber 30 through January 1. , are actually made available. Patrol Files Drunkenness hv.lpMM. ' Dr. R J. Jones, Lenoir comity health officer, has been charged (with operating a motoc vehicle (while intoxicated and his wife haa Tieen charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and interfer ing with thp officer in' the per formancr of hia duty, according to Cpl. V. L. tpruill of tbe Carteret ?eountv state highway patrol, who ??erved the warrants in the Absence i of Sgt. Tom Brown, New Bern. \tl Upon failure to appear in Craven county recorder's court for a bear ing, another hearing has been set tor 10 o'clock Tuesday morning in New Barn. B" A. W. Vinson, 1949 graduate of Nf Commerce in Koeky Mount, Wilson, Ttyboro, Wash ington. Kinston, New Bern, More head City, Beaufort and Farm ville. Coming from Washington to give inside and off the record in formation on the administration's attempt to put practically every business enterprise in America under a seventy-five cent mini mum wage, will be John Whitt-' lesey, top expert of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States See CHAMBER Page Seven Court Begins Four flours Late Superior Court convened at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Judge Clawson Williams' car broke down at Goldsboro and a phone message at 10 o'clock to A. H. James, clerk of superior court, stated that the judge would not be in Beaufort until 2 p.m. The grand jury was sworn in and to make up for lost time Judge Williams made his charge brief, telling them that they read the newspapers and heard on the radio how much crime there is and that they should make their inves tigations accordingly. The first case to be tried was against Clifton Keel, Negro charged with public drunkenness. { The petit jury for this case went into consultation at 3:05 p.m. Serving on the grand jury are I Charles W. Nelson, foreman, R. I T. Willis, Jr., Marvin Robinson, I Gilbert Willis, E. L. Davis, Leon-j ard Lewis, George W. Hancock, Jn*?en Gillikin. Vernon J. Murphy, Harold Wil lis, Sr., Hugh Gillikin, Gordon Styron, Blanchard Davis, R. Guy Garner, R. W. Safrit, Jr., Charles Davis, H. D. Paul, and Mart Lup ton. Ocean Route 17 Goes to Morehead More tourists than ever before may choose Morehead City as their stopping point every fall and spring, Robert G. Lowe, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Cofnmerce declared today, since Morehead City has been chosen as an official point in the New York to Miami Ocean highway, a highway over which more than 50,000 automobiles travel each fall and spring. Southbound traffic on the Ocean highway is scheduled to leave route 70 at New Bern and come to Morehead City via route 17. From Morehead City it will travel on route 24 to Jacksonville where it will again join route 7 <7. Northbound traffic will re verse this procedure. Mr. Lowe stated that tourists who travel the Ocean highway are the cream of the tourist crop. He said tfee shortest route from the north to Florida is through the contra] part of the state and con soquently those who travel the Ocean highway are those who have tbe time and money to travel more txpensivaly. First Lieutenant Robert 0. Bunce, Murine fighter pilot whose home was in Morehead City, was killed Friday afternoon at 1:15 in a plane crash at Cherry Point Marine Air base. Lieutenant Bunce was flying a Corsair fighter plane on routine flight when the plane suddenly fell to the ground and was de molished near the airfield. No reason for the crack up if it is known, has been given by Marine authorities. The crash was witnessed by 75 4-H club mem bers from Edgecombe county who were visiting the base. Lieutenant .Bunce is survived by his wife and two children, Michael, 3, and Katherine, 16 monhts. Their home in Morehead City is at 1)01 Arendell street. The body will be shipped to Seattle, Wash., Lieutenant Bunce's home, for burial. The fighter pilot won four decorations during the recent war. Retail Merchant Officials Speak Ta Businessmen Two authorities on retail mer chants associations, Wesley Wil hams, secretary of the Kateifrh Merchants bureau, and Thompson Greenwood, assistant' secrtary of, the North Carolina Merchants as sociation, addressed the Morehead City Merchants association a t their luncheon meeting Thursday in the Jefferson restaurant. Mr. .Williams recommended that a retail merchants association be established officially in Morehead City in order to let consumers know of an organization set up to help them by creating fair trade practices and purchasing the best available stock. j The speaker then listed several reasons why a merchants associa tion is advantageous. He said it serves as a medium to unite the merchants of the community, as a medium to keep the town in the spotlight in its particular shopping area, as a medium for legislative purposes such as presenting a united front for or against mea sures enacted by the town board and, chiefly, it helps the mer chants increase their volume of sales. "As many of you have found out in 'recent months," Mr. Wil liams said, "we are selling in a highly competitive market these days. The honeymoon is over. The town that has the best busi ness personality is the town that gets the trade. Your merchants association can do the best job of any organization in retail sales promotion. "An association such as I am speaking of can not operate with out public confidence. It has to be lived, not operated. Raleigh experienced a 12 per cent incrase in trade last year over its highest previous year. In April it led every city in the United States in See RETAIL Page Seven Minks Versus Horses By Thomas H. Carrow Strange thing* arc taking place throughout the world. You can't tell from one day to another what is going to happen. Recently I took a trip from Philadelphia to St. Paul, Minne sota tt> attend a convention and while there a manufacturer from Boston told me he lost a million dolJars on account of a strike in his plant that was settled on the same basis that he originally pro posed. Impressive but not sur prising, as strikes are an everyday occurence in the U. S. A. But there is something different. While seated in a chair car riding along the shores of the beautiful Mississippi, a fellow traveler, 75, occupying the seat next to mine, had a consuming desire to regale me with his ex periences from childhood to date. When he was in his teens he became a trapper of fur bearing animals. In the very dead of win ter he and his buddy would go off in the north woods and stay for three weeks at a time without see ing another soul. I think that might be called rugged individ ualism. While on these expedi tions, he would trap and skin fur bearing animals and bring the furs back to civilization for sale. That was more than half a cantury ago. Having learned the fur bus iness from the traps upward he naturally became a fur merchant and was going to ths St. Paul fur | market to make Home purchases. In the course of conversation he told me this story. Early in the present century someone conceived the idea of raising minks in captivity for their furs. Pretty soon mink farms sprang up in great numbers in various parts of the country. Now a mink farm is a place where they breed minks just like they do chickens, only minks don't lay eggs. Also, unlike chickens, minks require a meat diet to produce good fur. As long as cheap meat could be obtained, mink raising was a profitable business. But the war came and the prices of meat went up so high that it can celled out all 4he profits formerly made from mink furs. This forced a good many mink farmers out of business. However, some man Hged to hang on and this is how they are doing so. All over the U.S.A. farmers are substituting tractors or other motor vehicle.** for horses ? pos sibly half million or more a year ? and whenever a tractor is put in use a horse is put out of business. The result is that the horse mar ket in Indiana, where my travel ing companion came from, the big gest in the world, has been flood ed with horses from the farms in cluding the most beautiful, thor oughbred, animals, and they are being sold at knocked down prices, many of which are bought up by Urn MINK Page Stvts 100 Seniors Receive Diplomas At Twin City High Schools Dr. John E. Way Rescues Swimmer CJ Doctor Dives into Water Fully Clothed to Pull 12-Year-01d Ashore The quick action of n Beaufort doctor saved the life of a More head City boy Friday afternoon in Morehead City. The doctor was I)r. John E. Way, the hoy is unknown except that his last name is believed to be Willis. I)r. Way arrived in front of the Morehead City hospital Friday afternoon about 1 o'clock when he heard the cry of someone in the water opposite the hospital. Me rushed out on the pier and discovered that a small hoy about 12 years old who had been swim ming had been caught by the strong current and was being dragged under. I Dr. Way, immediately dived in to the water fully clothed and swam to the rescue of the sinking youth. He reached him and towed him to shore where it found that though the boy was badly frightened, he was unharmed and able to move under his own power after a brief rest. ^t press time yesterday the name of the youngster who nar rowly escaped death was still un known. Chamber Awards Prizes to Pupils , Results from reccnt recreation questionnaires given to the stu dents in Beaufort school have been tabulated and prizes awarded to the dinners by the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce, organization spon soring the questionnaire program. The questionnaires were sent out in an effort to discover just what sports and diversions Beaufort children were interested in and also to find out what they thought Beaufort's recreation needs were. Nine essays on Beaufort's re creation needs were chosen as the best among the hundreds submit ted and prizes of two tickets to the theatre were awarded to each win ner. Winners were Ctfrrinne Scur lock, 14, Swanna Darling, 13, Frank Sterling Gillikin, 14, Sylvia Jean Martin. 14, and Barbara Goodwin, 14, all of Beaufort; Mary Lily Haynes, 14, Patricia Ruth Daniels. 13, and Andy Mason, 14, all of Beaufort. RFD; and Charles R. Da vis, 17, of Harker's Island. , The results of the survey will be tabulated and analyzed in the near tuture. One hundred twin c*ity high school senior*, 41 from Beaufort and 40 from Morehead City, reached the culmination of 12 years of public school work Thurs day night in Beaufort and Friday night in Morehead City when commencement exercises were held. A pageant, Our America, car ried out the historical theme of exercises in Beaufort. Thf stave was vividly decorated in red, white, and blue flowers and the school band presented an excellent pro gram of patriotic music. A. C. Blcnkenship, president of the senior class, presented a speak ers stand and two wrought iron flower baskets to the school as a gift from the graduating class. J. R. Ball, chairman of the Beau fort school board of trustees, ac cepted the gift. Diplomas were presented to the 41 seniors by Principal T. (J. Leary. Mary Fond Mason deliv ered the acceptance speech. Little Jennifer Hose and Guy Dickinson, ill, also received mascots diplomas from Blankcnship. Fourteen different awards were made to seniors who had done out standing work. Margaret Ann Windley and (Jerry Dickinson re ceived awards as valedictorian and salutatoriaii respectively and Peg gy IMver and Shirley Lipman re ceived h n award for tying for the highest average, 95.75, made dur ing the junior year. Six other seniors, Colon Wilson, Dowd Da vis, Gerry Dickinson, Neva Dail, Helen I'aul and Klizabeth Bell maintained an average above 05 during their senior year. Dowd Davis and Helen Paul re ceived medals for excellent parti cipation in activities during the year. Blankcnship and Mary Fond Mason were chosen the best all around boy and Kirl in th?; senior class, (i lee club awards went tv Mum Smit , and,, .-liji .Haywe^. Jwimy I'iner "was chosen ,ihe most outstanding senior in student government and Margaret Ann Lewis received the home econom ics award. Rosalie Chadwick and Charles Stuart were chosen the See SENIORS Page Seven Building Increases Daring Last Month Building: activities in Morehead City for the month of May show an increase over that of the pre vious month, according to the re cords of A. B. Roberts, building inspector for the city. Building permits for the month of April amounted to $18,695 while those for the month of May total $30,550. Of this amount $28,900 is for new homes being built within the city, listed as fol lows: B. B. Montague, Sunset Drive, $9,000-11. (?? Maxwell, Jr., Evans street, $8,000; E. C. Willis, Jr., Evans street, $4,400; Duffy Wade, 21st Street, $2,000; E. K. Riggs, Fisher street, $1,500; Sndiq Fennell, 10th street, $2,000. 'V.^I. Guthrie made addition# to his house at a cost of $600. Dick Parker added garage space to his sales room at a cost of $500. C. H. Freeman is repairing a small building in the rear of Chadwick's Dry Cleaning plant at a cost of $300 and W. E. Brinson has built a sandwich shop opposite the Morehead City Garment factory at a cost of $250. Total permits for the past five months of the year amount to $158,452. This amount includes the new Sunday School building being erected by the First Baptist church at ? cost of over $53,000 but does not include the new church building being erected for the First Methodist church society which is said to cost $150,000. This item added to the others for the five months period would to tal well over a quarter of a mil lion dollars. Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, Jiina 14 10:48 a.m. 4:47 a.m. 11:05 p.m. 4:67 p.m. Wednesday, Juna IS 11:36 a.m. 5:34 a.m. 11:49 p.m. 6:38 p.m. Thursday, Jane 16 1 2 midnight 6:18 a.m. 1 Li .27 p.m. 6:92 p.m. 1 Friday. Jmmt IT 12:35 a.m. 7:01 a.m. 1:19 p.m. 740 p.m. .. 4