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Mr.Gus (Continued from Page D lis had 12 children. He has nine grandchildren now and 18 great grandchildren Mrs Willia died in 1935 Tbe centenarian worked at fish ing, farming and waa a mailman for about two years. For two years he ran the mail boat from Smyrna to Ocracoke, making two trips a week. - Mr. Willis doMn't think young people these days work hard enough. He said, "When I was growing up. boys had to work hard and aa a result, they were strong. The boys now probably aren't as strong because they don't work enough to build up their strength. When I got big enough to walk they put me to breaking up lumps in the po tato field." Concerning present-day times, he said, "This is the most danger ous age 1 have lived in. A lot of people say that every generation thinks their era is the most dan gerous, but I've lived through a couple of generations and 1 know this is the most dangerous. One more war and there won't be many people left." Visited in Florida Mr Willis, who still has a quick mind and a keen sense of humor has been out of the state one time in his 100 years. When he was 93, he spent two weeks in Penss cola, Fla. Other than that, 1iis travels have been cinfined to the I counties surrounding this area. Mr Willis appears to be in won derful condition for a man his age. His main trouble seems to be hear ing and seeing. He doesn't get out of his home on Gordon Street very much. The last time he was out was the night of June 30 when he and his daugh ter, Mrs. Nina Pake, walked to the corner of the block to watch the eclipse. He appeared to be very interest ed in the eclipse but said, "1 was pretty tired when I got back. We walked down to the end of the block and back. That's almost too much walking for me now." ? Whep asked why he thinks he has lived so long, Mr. Willis said, "I don't rightly know. When I was young 1 had rheumatism and was little and not too strong." Quickly he said, with a tone of admiration, "My twin brother, Alex, was big and strong. He was a strap ping fellow, over six feet tall." Alex died 28 years ago. Mr. Willis was asked if there was any special diet he could recom mend which might help people to Jive longer. He answered. "I always liked raw sweet po'atoes. Everybody else always cooked theirs but I didn't like 'em cooked. I liked to eat them raw I think they're better for you when you eat >m raw. And now I don't have any special diet. Eat anything I want to." Mr Willis will celebrate his birthday Sunday noon at a picnic which is being given in Smyrna by friends and relatives. The picnic, will be at the home of Mitchell Willis, a nephew, MOREHEAD Block & Tile Co. Inc. Phone 6-3970 Let Us Collect Your Bad Accounts We collect p??t due, de linquent and bad ac count* on a commission basis. No collections . . . no charge. Write for de tails to ? 2017 5. St. N.W. Washington, D. C. William Penn Blended j. Whiskey BMUBgmssssBg Smx, m% wmmum Town Board Grants Permit To Build Reel Near Dock Broad Street No Parking Signs WHI be Taken Down Members of th* Beaufort town board issued permission for a aelne reel to be built in Iront of the post office and decided that the no park ing signs on the south side of Broad Street should be taken down. The board met Monday night at the town hall. Leslie Moore requested the board's permission to build a seine reel on the property adjacent to the Moore dock on the south side of Front Street in front of the post office. Mr. Moore explained that It would be a temporary structure which would be taken down at the end of the fishing season. He said it was important that the reel be built as a convenience to the men haden boats using the dock. He also pointed .out that the men haden fishing fleet means a great deal to Beaufort and that the town board should grant the privilege of building a reel. Gerald Hill, commissioner, stated that he was under the impression that no thing could be built on the south side of Front Street. He said the reel would be detremental to the appearance of the property. Gene Smith, town attorney, said he thought it was a question of whether or not the board could grant the permission. He believed it was a matter for the zoning board. Halsey Paul, chairman of the Beaufort planning board, said he thought it would be up to the town board to decide the matter. Favors Reel Carl Hatsell, commissioner, spoke in favor of granting permis sion. Attorney Smith said the town would be creating an "attractive nuisance" and that children might play on the reel and get hurt. Mr. Moore insisted again that the menhaden fleet meant a .lot to Rontifnrt Commissioner Hatsell moved that permission be granted to build the fishing reel. Stipulations were that the reel be taken down within 10 days after the fishing season ended and that the permission be granted for one year. The board approved with Com missioner Hill dissenting. The board went on record to the effect that the audit of 1952-53 which has not yet been completed be finished within day jAor steps will be taken to effect completion. Tax Rate Set The tax rate for the 1954-55 fis cal year was set at $2 per hundred. Dan Walker, town clerk, told board members that this is the first year "in a long time" that the town of Beaufort has been able to get any credit. He said the town could float bonds worth approximately $12,000 and said that Is about the amount it would take to do needed street navintf. He was instructed by the board to look into the situation and the board would consider paving at a later date. Gerald Hill asked about the park ing in the 500 and 600 block on Broad Street. He said, "I was riding down Broad Street with a man who had just paid $21.50 for not stop ping tor a red light and the man pointed out that the Judge (Mason) was parked in a no-parking zone on Broad Street. I think that either the zone should be enforced or the signs taken down." Gordon Hardesty, police commis sioner, said, "We had an agreement with the town board that no tick ets were to be i Slued there. The board met later and said that all parking zones were to be enforced but I didn't know about it and as soon as somebody got a ticket for parking there they came running to me. Not knowing about the board telling the policemen to en force that no-parking area. I called up and told them to quit giving tickets there." Mr. Hatsell said, 'The commis sioners don't know what the police department Is doing because we don't know what happens at the meetings with the police. We don't ?ven know when they meet." To Be Invited Mr. Hardesty said that he would see to it that Mr. Hatsell was In vited to the next meeting with the police department. Mr. Walker explained that the tone was put there to that trucks would have a place to unload when they brought merchandiae to the stores on that aid* of the street. Mr. Hill Maintained that he still thought the algnt should either be taken down or the tone enforced. Mr. Hataell laid, "This it the cra ziest thing I ever heard. You put up no- perking signs and then agree to not enforce it. If I'd been here no such arrangement would have been made." Mr. HataeH then moved that all SUMMER COLD TAKE >r? ^ 666'Se Trailers Help Solve Store Trash Problem 66 Sheriffs Attend Annual Meeting at Beach Sixty-six sheriffs registered for their annual convention Tuesday afternoon at Atlantic Beach and the convention came to a close last night with a banquet at the Ocean King Hotel. One hundred fifty women at tended ladies' night Tuesday night at the Hear of the Beach. Prior to the ladies' night program sher iffs' and invited guests, number ing 243, were served a full-course seafood dinner at the Sanitary Fish Market and Restaurant, More head City. Orange punch, cookies and nuts were served, Mrs. C. L. Beam, Beaufort, poured. Other hostesses were Miss Georgia Hughes and Mrs. Hugh Salter, Beaufort, and Mrs. Marshall Ayscue, Morehead City. Carteret's sheriff, Hugh Salter, was master of ceremonies. Mem bers of Mrs Pat Fodrie's dancing class, Beaufort, presented two num bers, the Hokey-Pokey, and Walkin' My Baty Back Home. Miss Bobbie Dennis, Beaufort, sang Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? and Temptation. Ted Davis, manager of the More head City Chamber of Commerce, presented a skit. How to Hula by Mail. The announcer's voice on the recording used for the skit was Lynn Stoller's of Beaufort. Attending ladies' night, in ad dition to sheriffs' wives, were mem bers of the women's clubs in the county. Wednesday was devoted to com mittee meetings and a chicken sup per was served at Captain Bill's at Atlantic Beach Wednesday night. Yesterday a meeting for sheriffs and deputies took place from 10 tb 12 a.m. and was continued from 2 until 4 p.m. v ... The ladies enjoyed a motorcade to Fort Macon and a bus trip to Cherry Point Air Base. The banquet featured a talk Ed mund Harding, noted comedian. Officers of the sheriffs' asso ciation are Tom P. Bardin, presi dent; E. M. Logna, first vice-presi dent; Malcolm G. McLeod, second vice-president and John R. Morris, secretary - treasurer. Driver Cited Following Wreck John Freeman Sapp, 18, USMC, Cherry Point, has been charged with speeding as the result of an accident at 11 pm. Monday just west of Morehead City on Highway 70. State Highway Patrolman R. H. Brown said Sapp, in a 1937 Chevro let, was proceeding west on High way 70 and failed to make the turn where the new highway joins the old. He ran into the front yard of WMie Gray, made a U turn and re-entered the highway. As he got back on the highway, the car turn ed over on its right side. Neither Sapp nor the several pas sengers in the car were injured. Patroiman Brown said that he was going faster than was safe at that point in the highway. Hi? speed was estimated at 90 miles an hour. Damage to the car was estimated at $1S0. Lions Attend District Meeting at New Bern Seven Lions from Morehead City attended a district meeting of Lions International at New Bern Monday. They were Owens Frederick, Fred Hardy, J. T. Willis, J. D. Willis, Cecil Sewell, Gordon Laugh ton, and Ralph Albarea. of the no-Mrklnc signs on the south aide of Broad Street bo ta ken down. Tile motion waa passed. Mr. Hill said that tt had been re ported to him that the Beaufort police ear had been stea at Atlantic Boach. Police Chief M. E. Guy aaid that ho had to carry Miss North Caro lina over there The board decided that aa long aa it was a business trip it would be In order for the ear to go out of the city limits. In tba absence of Mayor Clifford Lewis, Com miaa loner W. O. Tem ple presided All other members ?f the board were present. The meeting was delayed one week be cause of the Mayor's Illness (Marge Franklin, couneel (or the League of Municipalities waa ex pected but could not attend ? Dan Walker, Beaufort town clerk, said the town is well on the way to licking the trash problem in the business section. Street Superintendent Wardell Fillingame and his men have built two- wheel trailers which are be ing placed at the rear of stores. Instead of business houses dumping trash in bins and the town crew then shoveling the trash from the bins into the truck, the trash will be dumped directly in the trail er. Then when a trash truck is full and ready for a trip to the dump, it stops in the downtown section, picks up a trailer and tows it to the dump. The trailers, Mr. Walker says, are equipped with a Fillingame Conway Four-Piston Hydraulic Lift (manpower that is). The tail gate is removed, they're dumped, and towed back to their down town station. The town clerk said that the trailers, three of which are in use now, will save the town eight man hours a week, four truck hours, gasoline and wear on tires. The trailers, about 6x8 and 8 x 10 are built of wood, have auto mobile axles and automobile wheels. Each trailer cost the town about $50 and takes the place of expensive dumping machinery i which if bought would cost about $8,000, according to Mr. Walker. The first of the new trailers was | built in Morehead City at a cost to ' the town of $75. Five trailers are planned. The new system provides better service to the businessmen and allows the \ street crew more time to do other ' town work, the clerk concluded. I < Committee Chairman ' Outlines Objectives ? The aims and objectives of the' ( Newport Rotary Club's health and happiness committee were outlined ( for the coming year by Milton I Warren, committee chairman, at 1 the Rotary meeting Monday. Edgar Comer, Rotarian who has J been spending the summer at Bre- < vard, N. C., returned and was wel comedJ?y the club. Mr. Comer Us Principal of Newport High School. r Walter Edwards of Morehead i City was a visitor. Hawkins Hibbs \ of Newport was a guest. c Court . (Continued from Page 1) He was Charged with trespasaing, public drunkenness and disturb ing the peace. Found guilty of issuing a bad check. Ruth Cook was ordered to pay the amount of the check and costs. Sam Stevenson was taxed costs of court for charges of public drunk enness. Sentence Suspended Billy Malachi Merrill was sen tenced to 30 days in jail with the sentence suspended providing that he pay costs in two weeks. He was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road. Charges of parking on the travel portion of the highway were brought against Thomas A. Dobbin and he was taxed costs of court. Seven persons were charged with having no operator's license. They were Jack Carlton Gray, Donald Huston Lewis, Mary Louise Green Wooten. Carl A. Letsch, Bethine Lewis Gillikin. Curtis Harold Ham llton and Fred M. Peck. Gray, Lewis, Letsch, and Hamil ton paid costs and Peck was fined $10 and costs. The state did not prosecute the case against Gillikin and Wooten. Mable White Gilchrist and James Harrison Miller were charged with having an expired operator's li cense. Both were taxed costs of court. James Benjamin Harkers Jr. pled guilty to a charge of careless and reckless driving and was fined $50 and costs. Gene W. Bradford was found guilty of having an improper muf fler and was taxed costs. A charge of having no lights on his automobile was brought against George E. Mosakowski. He was found guilty and paid costs. Mike Merva Jr. paid costs for following too closely. Edward Hughes Meadows pled guilty to a charge of driving on the wrong side of the road and was fined $10 and costs Charges Dropped The state did not prosecute Rob ?rt E. King on charges of having improper driver's license and im proper registration. Timothy J. McCarthy was ?harged with speeding and driving without a driver's license. The state ]id not prosecute on the charge of io driver's license but taxed Mc Carthy costs of court for speeding. Leslie McLean pled guilty to a charge of allowing an unlicensed >erson to operate an automobile ind paid costs. The state did not prosecute Fames Taylor on charges of public Irunkenness but left the case open. Bonds forfeited Three persons forfeited bonds, rhey were Edwin Ellis Daniels, D& rid Lynn Neeley, and Harold Lyn vood Dale. Daniels and Dale were charged with speeding and Neeley ?u charged with drivtag on the wrong tide of the highway Clem Fulcher had been charged with asaaalt hat the proaecutlng witness was taxed eoeta ot court for malicioui prosecution. Cases Continued Thidty seven cases were contin ued as follows: Herbert H. Janes, speeding; Vandie H Alligood, nori support; Ted Day, bad check; Jack R Bell, no operator's license; Mat thew A. Marshall, driving drunk; Mildred Rose Styron, no operator's license; Jtmmie L. Tolbert, expired operator's license. Jack Harlen Harmon, passing at an intersection, Charlotte K. Scbeall, no operator's license, Richard James Scheall, permitting unlicensed person to op erate an automobile. William C. Johnson, speeding. Andre* Green Jr., careless and reckless, driving; Alooza Thomas Redd Jr., drunken driving after li cense had been (upended ; Howard Fulton Baker, fishing from a re stricted bridge; Robert Pulton Bak er. loitering on a highway bridge; Hugh Whales, nonsupport; Gor don Pokag, speeding. Francis H. Straus*, assault; James Alton Wadsworth, speeding; Lester Dickinson, assault; Francis Lee Sheppard, speeding and care leu and reckless driving; Harold Lee Odberg. careless and reckless driving; Harrison Horton, assault; Joe Glllikin, non-support; Clarence E. Smith, James Bran ton, Theodore Johnson, all charged with issuing bad checks; and Wyon Gray Lewis, expired operator's license. William Hardy Willis, no opera tor's license, Ralph Ruaaell Dixon, drunken driving, Edward Heal Jones, permitting an unlicensed person to operate an automobile; , GeraMiae Braawell Jones, so op- 1 r rater's haense; James Paddison Pretlow failing to stop at a stop '' sign; Isaac Biango, following too close; Pney Hamilton Davis, speeding; William Clifton Hose, failing to step at a stop sign; and Peter Colan Grant, speeding. Women Sheriffs Little Rock, Ark. (AP) ? Arkan sas haa two women sheriffs ? both of them sppoftited by Gov. Fran cis Cherry after the deaths of their ' husbands. They are Mrs. Gertrude Langston of Lee County and Mrs. C. Cook of Hempstead County. Anniversary i Anniversary 1895 1954 60 YEARS OF SERVICE AND SATISFACTION HELP US MAKE THIS OUR BIGGEST and BEST No Market Any Better ? Highest Prices ? Courteous Treatment to All 5 - SETS OF BUYERS - 5 14 - WAREHOUSES - 14 9- MODERN TOBACCO FACTORIES -9 All Warehouses Sell Daily ? 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