"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 N<wth Carolina State college, who majored in animal husbandry, has accepted the job as Carteret county's assistant farm agent and will begin his work here July 1. This announcement was made to day by R. M. Williams, county farm agent. County commissioners author ized the employment of an assis tant farm agent at their February meeting. The county will pay $1,500 of his annual salary and the remainder will be paid by the state. The Beaufort Chamber of Com merce was instrumental in obtain ing a n assistant farm agent. Through this group it was pointed out that vast sums of money are spent for importation of poultry and milk to this county, which they contended, could be dispensed with, if the 4-H boys and girls received special trainnig in dairy ing and poultry raising. In addition to Mr. Stinson's college agricultural training, he was born and reared on a farm in Union county and has had con siderable farm experience, Mr. Williams said. He has worked for the past two summers on the State college livestock farm The county agent reported that the major part of the assistant agent's time will be spent on 4-H club work and livestock produc tion. Typhoid Clinics Disappointing, Officer Reports Response to the recent rural ty phoid vaccination program in the county has been most diuppoint ing. Dr. N. Thomas Ennett, county health officer reported today. The health officer commented that what the county needed was several mild cases of typhoid fe ver to awaken it to its vaccination needs. The vaccination program closed Wednesday following a period dur ing which public health nurses visited 15 rural communities three different times. Less than ISO per sons were vaccinated during that time, Dr. Ennett said. ? Last year almost 30 rural com munities were visited, but so few persons responded that this year the number was reduced to those areas which showed the most res ponse last year. The health of ficer stated that probably even fewer communities would be visit ed next year because of this year's poor results. Those persons who did not re ceive vaccinations and who desire' to do so may be vaccinated by go ing to the clinics held at the health office in Beaufort from 1 to 5 p. m. Tuesday and B to 12 a. m. Sat urday or the one in Morehead City held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thurs day. All types of adult and infant vaccinations are given at these clinics. Magician Amuses Fathers, Sods Harold Sampson, master ma gician, thrilled Morehead City Ro tarians and their sons with an ex hibition of sleight of hand and mind reading tricks at the Rotary t father and son banquet Thursday night in the Recreation center. Mr. Sampson started hia. show with a demonstration of the meth od of cutting a necktie to pieces with a pair of scissors. He waa supposed to put it back in one piece again. Dr. Dardan Eure, a most willing assistant, volunteered his tie for the demonstration. As the banquet ended, his tie re mained in pieces and he doubted that Mr. Sampson would ever put it together again. The magician's exhibition was well received by all of the more than 65 persons present. The only feat he found impossible to accomplish was the material ixa tion of a son for A. G. "Jock" Roberts, one of the few Rotarians present minus a son. No mayor's court wis held in Morehead City yesterday because Mayor George W. Dill, Jr., was in New York City attending the national Rotary convention. ? This One Makes History This is the famous Koiaka pictured here with his trainer. Rob Crouch. Koiaka won the Carolina inaugural on the opening night of the Morehcad City dog track and in a race last week finished in a dead heat for third place, i Photo by Aycock Brown Sanitation Commissioner Schedules Boards of Review I The first of two sanitation board | of reviews will be held tomorrow | at 2 p.m. on the second floor of Beaufort town hall with Town Commissioner Wiley Taylor, Jr., j presiding. Beaufort commissioners at their June meeting decided to hold the | review boards in order to give town sanitation ordinance viola tors an opportunity to show why they have not improved sanitary conditions on their property. If after tomorrow's meeting and the one following it on Wednesday, ' June 22, tjiere has been no im-j ?provement shown in the individual { property owner's situation, the owner will be prosecuted in the courts for his offense. The review boards were set up primarily because violators were notified two years ago and again a year ago of their violation. Those who still have not corrected their | error after the boards have been held will have had ample warning, ? Commissioner Taylor said. Judge Makes No Decision on Madix A decision on reorganization proceedings for Madix Asphalt Roofing corporation in a special session of federal court hold in Morehead City municipal buildnig yesterday was not reached at presstime, hut indications were that a bid of $ J 1)0,000 from South ern Felt corporation for the entire Madix business would probably be accepted. Federal Judge Don Gilliam of Tarboro presided over the pro ceedings which opened yesterday morning. The major portion of the day was spent in testimony which disclosed that there are un secured claims totalling over $200,000 against the Madix jlfch cern and secured claims from first, second, and third mortgages totalling $ 194,000. The Southern Felt bid stipu lates that Southern Felt claims totalling $242,000 will be voided if the $190,000 bid is accepted. Twenty- five thousand dollars of the Southern Felt claims are sc-' cured which means that total se cured claims against the Madix corporation will be $169,000 if the Southern Felt bid is accepted. This is $21,000 less than the Southern Felt bid so possibilities are that all secured -claims will be paid off if the bid U accepted. Owners of the second mortgage of $57,000 and of $25,000 of the third mortgage are Carteret coun ty residents. Paces were some what brighter along Arendell street in Morehead City late yes terday with the prospect that long due debts might possibly be paid. A complete report of the court's decision will appear in Fl-iday's NEWS-TIMES. The board of directors and ad visory council of the Morehead City Chamber of Commerce will hold their monthly meeting Thurs day in the recreation center at 12:45 p.m. Julian Austin, James Fodrie Go To Boys' State The honor of being: chosen to I attend the annual Tar Heel Boy's Slate being: held in Chapel Hill this we<'k has fallen on two Beau fort high school rising seniors, Julian Austin, son of Mr. and Mis. Roy Austin, and James Fodrie, son of 54 r. and Mrs. James Fodrie. Expenses for the boys' trip to Chapel Hill and their stay there will he borne by Carteret Amer ican Legion Post No. 990. The Boys' State program has been sponsored annually by the North Carolina American . Legion depart n*ent every yepr since 1939 with the exception of the war years. The two local boys were re quired to live up to rigid standards in order to be chosen by the high school faculty. They were judged on their mental alertness, physi cal cleanliness, enthusiasm, vigor, personality, potential qualities of leadership, adaptibility, honesty, conscientiousness and dependabil ity. The two Beaufort high school students, along with four from Morehead City, arrived in Chapel Hill Sunday and will leave there this Sunday following a farewell breakfast. Those from Morehead City are Guy Paul Dixon, Charles T. Macy, Robert l^ee Bowers, and Bobby Oglesby. Frank Moran Heads Lions Club Frank Moran, past secretary and vice-president, was elected president of the Morehead (fity Lions Club at its meeting Friday night in the Fort Macon hotel dining room. He succeeds David B. Webb. Chesley Dehnis was elected first vice president -to serve with Pres ident Moran. . Other officers are Theodore Phillips, second vice president; Jim Moran, third vice president; Oscar Allred, secretary; Alvan N. Willis, treasurer Gerald Davis, Lion tamer; Harry Van Home, tail twister; and Albert McElmon and Frank Swindell, directors who will serve for two years. Time for weekly Lions meet ings has been changed from Fri day to Thursday night for the duration of the summer. This change was made so that mem bers of the .Lions softball team could play their regular scheduled games on Friday night in the Morehead City softball league. This week's meeting will be the last to be held on Friday night. The Crab Pbint home demon stration club meeting scheduled for Thursday has been postponed until Thursday, June 30, because the home agent is attending an a conference at Raleigh. Morehead City Fighter Pilot Killed in Crash at^Cherry Point Chamber Members To Hear Talks Oo Legislation Carteret Businessmen Will Attend Meeting Tonight At Greenville What, will happen to minimum wage fight in this session of Con gress? Will the current adminis tration he successful in its efforts to repeal the Taft Hartley Labor Law? Will Congress increase the coverage under the wage hour law so that' Carteret merchants will he effected? These are just some of the ques tions that will he answered to night when businessmen from more than a half dozen eomniu nities in this vicinity gather at the Woman's club to discuss notional affairs. The meetings will be sponsored by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the f'hamber of Commerce of the United States. Cooperating in staging the meeting will be the Chambers <>f 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

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