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45th YEAR. NO. 65. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGEa MO RE HE AD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. AUGUST 14, 1966 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
2-Year-Old Boy
Suffers Broken
Leg in Wreck
Car, Pickup Truck Crash
At Beaufort Intersection
* Yesterday Morning
Twa-yoarold Gifford Nicholson,
rod of Mr. and Mrs. William R.
Nicholson, Hancock Park, Beaufort,
suffered a compound fracture of his
right leg at 11:15 yesterday morn
ing in an automobile accident.
k Also injured In the same acei
4 dent was his 5-year-old sister, Eliz
abeth, and Donald Wetherington,
West Beaufort. Elizabeth had a
cut lip and bruised cheek and
Wetherington had a cut on the left
side of his head.
The children were in a 1952
Dodge, driven by their father,
which collided with a Ford pickup
truck at Broad and Turner Streets,
Beaufort. Driving the pickup was
Wetherington.
4 Mr. Nicholson told Chief of Po
lice Guy Springle that he failed
to stop at the stop sign. He said
he was thinking of something else
and simply didn't see the sign. He
was going east on Broad and Weth
erington was going north on Turner
Street.
The impact knocked the Dodge
on its side and headed it back in
the direction it was coming from.
It was termed a total loss. Damage
to the pickup was estimated at
$200.
The Nicholson children were
taken to the hospital by Frank
k Johnson, Beaufort. Wetherington
was taken to the hospital by the
Adair ambulance.
Mr. Nicholson, who is employed
at the Fish and Wildlife Service,
Pivers Island, has been charged
with facing to stop at a stop sign,
causing an accident.
Chamber Asks
Property Owners
To Save Banks
Outer banks property owners of
the County have received a letter
( from Walter Edwards, president
of the Morehead City Chamber of
Commerce.
The letter was sent in coopera
tion with the Hurricane Rehabili
tation Program inaugurated by
Gov. Luther H. Hodges. It con
tained two maps, one showing the
proposed Coastal Highway and one
presenting facts on erosion along
the Outer Banks.
Also included in the letter was
a questionnaire which the owners
were asked to fill out and return.
J They were asked to state whether
they would build groins qr jettiei
along the beach and sand fences
or brush traps along the dunes.
The questionnaire also asked
whether the owners will plant
grass or seedlings and join their
neighbors to consider ways of halt
' ing erosion and to explore possi
bilities of group financing of re
habilitation measures.
It asked the property owners'
opinions as to laws prohibiting the
grating of any animals upon any
section of the Outer Banks and
regulating the removal of protec
tive sand dunes and vegetation.
The property owners were re
minded that by filling out the
questionnaire and taking the pro
posed measures they were helping
, themselves. "Many of the 84 miles
of outer banks in Carteret County
will soon be made accessible by
ferry or highway, and a few dol
lars plus a little effort will make
big returns in the near future,"
Mr. Edwards said.
10 Club Women
Attend Workshop
Ten Home Demonatration club
women and the home agent, Mra.
Floy Garner, ire attending the
Home Demonitration Handicraft
Worluhop thia week at Camp Man
teo.
They left thia morning and will
return Tburaday. They are lira.
Maaley Eubankj, Wiregraaa Club;
Mra. Madge Reynold*, Newport
Club; Mra. Mlltoa Piner, Crab
Point; Mra. Lee Garner and Mra.
D. R. Arnold, Ruaaella Creek.
Mra. BHlie Smith, North River;
Mra. Curtii Pake, Miaa Phyllia
Pake, Mra. L. B. Willia Jr. tad
Mra. Guy GUlikin, all of the Bet
tie Club.
The workshop la being conducted
by Miaa Roe* Bryan and Miaa lola
Prttchard, extension food conaer
vation and marketing apecialiata.
Menae to be Moved
The Jailer'a houae, which haa to
be moved to make way far the
new county iail, will be moved
acroaa the atreet to the aea( aide
of Craven. The houae waa recently
?old by the county.
1
Reservists Train on Landing Craft
Ill the engine room of an LCI) at Fort Eustia, Va., are four mem
bers of the Army Reserve Heavyboat unit, Beaufort. Left to right.
they are M/Sgt. George Terrell, Havelock; Sgt. Elwood Leary and
Pvt. Ed Oglesby, Morehead City; and Sgt. Jack McManus, Beaufort.
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? U. S. Army Photos
on the flying bridge of an LCU are M/Sgt. Bernard Parker, Ilavelork; U. I con Mann, Newport,
commanding officer of the Beaufort Army Renerve heavykoat unit, and W/O BUI Hancock, Morekead
City. The unit returned Saturday from two weeka' training at fort Euxtia, Va.
Tar Heel Coast Hopes Betsy
'Stays 'Way from Our Door'
Everybody's hoping Betsy won't
visit the NoTUT Carolina coast, but
it was still too early yesterday af
ternoon to determine which way
the sccond storm of the season
will (o.
At noon yesterday the Miami
Weather Bureau warned the coast
of Florida south of Daytona Beach
to take all precautions necessary
for riding out a hurricane.
A year ago Sunday, Connie
lashed the Tar Heel coast. But
weather experts say if clcar wea
ther continues here and the pre
vailing westerlies keep sweeping
along on a southern course, the
storm is not likely to come in on
this coast.
Civil Defense and Had Cross of
ficials are takiag no chances, how
ever. Housewives are asked to
make sure that they have enough
food m hand to feed their familiea
should power go off and stores
close.
Battery radioa and flashlights
should he in working order and
automobiles should have at least
a half Unk of gas and a full tank
preferably.
Should it be necessary for storm
shelters to go into operation, thia
information will be broadcast by
(o the (belter* should take food
and blanket* with them.
Betsy was first discovered in the
Caribbean Friday, and at noon yes
terday was reported 530 miles east
southeast of Miami, moving in a
northwest direction. Anna, the
first hurricane of the season,
crossed the Gulf of Mexico and
blew itself out inland before winds
reached hurricane force.
If Betsy hits, she promises to
be a lulu. Winds near the center
of the storm have a velocity of
more than 100 miles an hour.
Persons are particularly warned
to stay in their homes while a
storm Is in progress. Sightseers
endanger their lives and make it
difficult for utility crews, police
officers and other authorised per
sons to carry out nocessary duties.
CaUisUa Occurs
A 1951 Chrysler, proceeding east
on Arendell Street, More head City,
Saturday, collided with a 1948
panel truck owned by Alex Erick
son. 210 Queen "St. Beaufort. The
truck had been parked by Richard
Newman, 308 Moore St.. Beaufort.
Driver of the Chrysler, which sus
tained $100 In damage, waa Eva
S. ColeDurn, Holly Ridge, police
JO Patients
Attend Clinic
Fifty patient* attended the or
thopedic clinic at the Morehead
City Hospital annex Saturday
morning.
There were 18 new patient* and
32 who had been to the clinic be
fore. Conducting the clinic were
Dr. Lenox Baker of Duke Hospital
and Dr. J. R. Deneen of Camp L e
Jeune Hospital.
Miss Alma Johnson, ptvyilcal
therapist, instructed several pa
tients In exercises designed to im
prove their condition. Flowers,
given by the Morehea0 City Floral
Co., were taken after the clinic to
Herbert Salter, Sea Level, who is
Ul.
Ice cream was served by liaola
Milk Co. Volunter helpers were
Mn George Wallace. Mrs. W. W.
Patrick, and two health department
nurses, Mrs. Leota Hammer and
Mrs. Louise Spivey.
The next clink will be from 8:M
to 1 1 Saturday, Sept IS at Ike baa
fi|a| Mmunt
Thieves Take
Parts from Cars
Parts were taken from four auto
mobiles in Morehead City and At
lantic Beach Friday night. Inves
tigating the thefts are the sheriff's
department. Morehead City police
and the SBI.
A carburetor was taken from the
station wagon owned by Lee Han
nah, according to Sheriff Hugh
Salter. The station wagon was
parked in front of the # Hannah
cottage at the bMfcK." Also swiped
from the station wagon were a
couple seat cushions and two head
light rims.
Investigating the beach theft
with Ihc sheriff is George Smith,
Morehead township constable.
Chief of Police Herbert Griffin
reported theft of parts from two
1058 Chevrolet* and an old model
Studehaker at Sound Chevrolet
Co., Morehead City. Two wheels,
two tires and two hub caps were
taken off a 1956 Bel Air, and tile
same amount of equipment was
removed from another 1956 Chev
rolet.
Taken from the Studcbakcr was
a 6-volt Delco battery. The two
new cars were parked in Uie Sound
Chevrolet lot behind Sound Esso
Senicc Station. Time of the thefts
was set at after midnight.
Pickup Truck Hits
6-Year-Old Boy
Six-year-old James Edward Gra
ham, who lives with his grand
parents at 300 Pine St., Beaufort,
suffered humps and bruises at 6:05
1 p.m. Thursday when he was
knockcd down by a pickup truck
at Pine and Turner Streets.
Chief of Police Guy Springle
said the truck was driven by Ger
ald Austin, Beaufort. The child
was running from the east side
of Turner to the west side and
had just about gotten to the curb
when the right front bumper of
the pickup pushed him down, Chief
Springle said.
He said the truck had practi
cally come to a halt when it hit
the boy. The youngster was taken
to the Morehead City Hospital in
the police car. He waa examined
and discharged.
The chief said witnesses told
him the accident couldn't have
been avoided. No charges were
filed.
Two VshiclM Collide
In Mor?h?ad Saturday
A 1048 Chevrolet panel truck
driven by Jake F. Wade III, Wild
wood, collided with a 1949 Buick
sedan at 7:05 a.m. Saturday on
24th Street, Morehead City.
According to LL Carl Bunch and
Patrolman Bruce Edwards, the
truck ran into the rear of the
Buick. Driving the Buick was John
H Baaden, 103 Gordon SC. Beau
fort. No one was hurt
Both vehicles were headed south
on 24th Street. Damage to each
vehicle waa estimated at >100. Baa
den waa charged with Improper
registration of hia car and Wade
was charged with driving with in
sufficient brakes. The truck ia
owMtf by bouthara Dairies
Large Grain Movement
Will Start Saturday
Start of Second
Soil Bank Phase
Faces Delay
B. J. May, ASC manager, said
yesterday morning that the date
for farmers signing up for the
''conservation phase" of the soil
bank has been postponed.
ASC officials and other farm
leaders were scheduled to attend
a meeting at New Bern Thursday
to hear about details of the pro
gram, but the meeting has been
called off.
Detailed operating instructions
out of Washington have not been
received, thus the meeting will
have to be held at a later date.
The phase of the soil bank pro
gram already in effect is the
?'acreage reserve" program. Mr.
May says Carteret farmers will be
notified when they can start sign
ing up for the conservation phase.
Thirty cotton and tobacco farm
ers banked 51.99 acres this sum
mer. Tobacco farmers will collect
$5,834.14, cotton farmers $988.30,
making a total of $6,822.44 Uncle
Sam will pay Carteret farmers
this year.
The ''conservation reserve" pro
gram takes land out of production
for long periods of time, at least
three years. If trees arc planted,
the land can be kept out of crop
production for as long as 15 years.
To take part in the conservation
phase, a farmer must sign an
agreement with his ASC commit
tee. He will agree to take land out
of production and use it exclusive
ly in conservation practices.
The government says it will pay
him most of what it costs to plant
cover for the acrcage, plus an an
nual payment for keeping the land
idle.
Grass, legumes and trees may
be phmtcd. No crop may be haf-*
vested except trees and then those
only in accordance with good for
estry management.
Pastureland put in the bank this
year may not be grazed before
Jan. 1, 1959 or later.
The payments a farmer will get
each year will be based on the
value of the land, land rates in
the area and will be large enough,
the government says, to make a
farmer willing to participate.
To be eligible as a soil banker,
a farmer must be within his crop
allotments. Both tenants and
sharecroppers will share in the
money being paid for taking land
out of production.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Tuesday, Aug. M
2:09 a.m. 8:16 a.m.
2:32 p.m. 9:23 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. IS
3:13 a.m. 9:18 a.m.
3:52 p.m. 10:23 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 18
4:16 a.m. 10:17 a.m.
4:47 p.m. 11:18 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 17
5:13 a.m. 11:13 a.m.
5:37 p.m.
? The tint cargo, in what it hoped4
to be a 20.000-ton movement of
soybean pallets, will go aboard the
SS Mormacisle at Horehead City
port Saturday.
The pellets, a processed soybean
product, are being shipped to Scan
dinavian countries by the Inter
Ocoanic Commodity Corp., New
York.
The Mormacisle. an American
ship, will take on 2,000 tons. Nine
more ships are tentatively sche
duled to call at Morehead City to
take on the remaining 18,000 tons.
The cargo will be moved into
Morehead City by railroad freight
car and will be loaded directly in
to the ship by Cargill Inc., grain
exporter*. The Cargill grain load
ing installation will be used.
Agent and stevedores for the
ship are Heide and Co., Inc., More
head City and Wilmington.
Four Named
A&NC Directors
Four county residents were ap
pointed directors of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad at the
annual stockholders meeting Fri
day morning at the Atlantic Beach
Hotel.
They arc Dr. B. F. Royal and
H. S. Gibbs Sr.. Morchcad City;
Clayton Fulchcr Sr., Atlantic, and
Hugh Salter, Beaufort. They will
serve one-year terms.
Mason King, vice-president in
charge of traffic, Southern Rail
way, attended the meeting and
commented that Southern is en
thusiastic about the paper plant
which is considering locating be
tween New Bern and Kinston.
The stockholders were presented |
the annual report on the company's
operation. The AltNC is lessor of
(he Atlantic and East Carolina
Railroad which operates between
Goldsbcru and Morehead City.
Acquisition of that line by Sou
t hern Railway Is now before the
latcprtatc Commerce Cotnmiaaioo.
Democratic Official
Thanks F. R. Seeley
For Term of Service
lrvin W. Davis, chairman of the
County Democratic Executive Com
mittee yesterday thanked F. R.
Seeley, recent chairman of the
County Board of Elections for his
Ions years of service.
Mr. Seeley resigned last week
because of ill Jiealth, after serv
ing on the board 14 years. He has
been rcplaccd by C. Z. Chappell,
Beaufort.
"Mr. Seeley served his county
and the Democratic party with a
faithfulness that will long be re
membered," Mr. Davis said. "His
services arc deeply appreciated."
Mr. Davis extended best wishes
to Mr Chapptll for a long and
successful term of office.
Car Hits Parker Car
A car reported owned by Mrs.
Virginia D. Landii, Pinehurst, col
lided with an automobile owned
by Bob Shaw, parked at 606 Arcn
dell St., Morehead City, Sunday
morning. Damage to the Shaw car
was slight. Morehead City police
investigated.
E. A. Canipe Comments
On Moving of Freighter
E. A. Canipe, Havelock, owner
of the freighter, Omar Btbun,
which ia beached at Morehead City,
told THE NEWS-TIMES Friday
that nt> one in Morehead City or
Beaufort haa contacted him about
moving the freighter.
The ahlp ia anchored at the aide
of the channel leading to the
Morehead City Yacht Baain and
haa been termed a threat to the
yacht baain ahould It break looae
during a atorm.
Mr. Canipe referred to a atory
in THE NEWS-TIMES laat week
in which Roy Eubanka, shipwreck
commiaaioner, quoted Canipe aa
saying he "didn't have to move the
ahlp."
Ne Reqaeat Made
"Nobody haa ever aaked me to
move it," Mr. Canipe aaid. He ad
ded that he haa not been informed
that the ahlp la a menace to navi
gation. "The only oorreapondence
1 have had with the Cout Guard,"
Mr. Canipe continued, "wia rela
tive to putting a green flaahing
light on the atern of the ahlp aa
a warning that the ahlp waa there."
Mr. Canipe aaid he gave the Coaat
Guard authority to place the light
The ahlp'a owner aaid that it
had noflH^ia intention to leave
the UnvTlmn beached where
it fc and that* planned to nova
it when he (Ot around to It. "I hid
hoped to have it moved by now,"
he Mid.
Water-Legged Ship
Mr. Canipe said the freighter ia
three-quarteri lull of water, sitting
on the bottom and anchored with
more than one cable. He aald U
people at the yacht basin are wor
ried about the ahlp'a breaking
loose and being carried into the
basin, he said they needn't be con
concerned becauae a storm that
would do that would take away
Morehead City itaelf.
When asked if he had inaurance
to cover such an accident, Mr. Ca
nipe aald he had no comment.
The ship owner atated that Carl
Goodwin of the Twin City Metal
and Salvage Co., where the ship
la beached, looks after the ship.
He said he haa cooperated in
the paat with the Coast Guard and
the United States government in
relation to the skip, but says he
has never had any request from
the Morehead City Chamber of
Commerce or anyone else in this
area relative to moving the Omar
Babun.
Mr. Caaipe said his Havelock
addrthi la Boi MS. his phone num
ber ia an, Havelock, and he will
be "glad to cooperate with any
one at as/ time."
Scout Officials
Meet, Outline
ProgramforYear
County Boy Scout officials met
last night at the civic centc^ Morc
head City, to plan their Octobcr
fundraising campaign and activi
ties for the year. Ethan Davis,
commissioner, presided.
The Fall Round-Up of New
Scouts will begin in September.
To each Scout and Explorer who
recruits a new Scout, a ticket to
one of the major college football
games will be given, and a free
ticket will be given also to the
Scoutmaster whose troop member
ship increases by five.
It is proposed to give Cub Scouts
a pass to the movies if they reeruit
new Cubs, according to Rudolph
Alexander. Scout executive for Car
teret and Onslow Counties.
Heads Campaign
Cordon C. Willis, Morehead Clty
will head the Carteret district fund
raising drive. Chairmen in the com
^eswiUbeDr.S.W-H.Uher
and Thomas Frailer, Morehcad
City, Dr. W. A. Chipman and Ran
dolph Johnson, Beaufort; Julian
Guthrie, Harkcrs Island
Archie Jones, Marshallbcrg, C.
H. Lockcy, Newport, and Walter
Teich. Harlowe. . .
The troop at MarshallbcrR is in
the process of reorganixation. Us
sponsorship has been taken over
by the Marsballbcrg Progressive
Community Club, with the '?r?cr
sponsor, the Marshallberg Metho
dist Men s Club, cooperating.
Pro)?cU Outlined
Mr Alexander said that the
vear's procram includes Boy Scout
cooperation in . Get Out the Vote
campaign and cooperation wit
Civil Defense in observance of Civil
Defense Week Sep! IH?
The- Rational WrtWroe h s***1;
tiled to be held during the coming
year at Valley Forge and will in
Hude a tour for the ScouU of
Washington. D. C. Mr. Alexander
said that C arteret and Onslow arc
Coast Guard
Makes Rescues
Coast Guardsmen were kept on
the Jump over the weekend, ac
cording lo Jamea Hunnlngs, com
landing officer of Fort Macon.
Three boats were taken in tow
Saturday, the Sea R??cnaparty
boat out of More head City, w?s
helped into port, as was a 20-foot
cabin yacht, the Two Boys, and
the Danda, a 38-foot snapper fi?b
Vircent Wright, route 1 Beau
fort and hit brother-in-law, Dan
n Windsor, had a narrow es
cape Sunday afternoon whentbeir
14-foot outboard skiff swamped off
Shacklcford Banks.
The Coast Guard saw their dif
ficulty and picked up both men
and the skiff. Mr. Wright said Uiat
he was having engine trouble and
w.v? .urted breaking over the
boat, making It imposalble to roa
"rishiag gear, diving *c,r' *
camera and Mr. Wright. wallet
^T^'carefree m was Uken In
low Sunday night after K ??
aground in Core Creek Both ita
?hafts were bent and the anchor
cable was fouled In the acrew.
And That's How
It Got Built...
Two principal*, ? coach and a
achool Janitor turned "engiaeen"
thia summer to put up the new
prefabricated claaaroom building
at the rear of the More head City
School.
They ware Lenwood Lee, prin
cipal of the achool, E. B. Comer,
principal at Newport School, Coach
Cannon Talbert at the Morehead
City faculty, and Benny No*, who
will be Janitor at the achool.
They did the metal work, and
carpenteri are now doiag the fln
inhiag work. Mr. Lee reported Fri
day. The building will hart four
classrooms, tccommoditini some
Kctiooa of the 7th and 8th gradea.
If the building In fiaiahed by
Sept. 4. aa U hoped, boy. and flrle
will a at lure to be scattered In
raoax throughout town aa during
the paat few year*. That waa
nr emery becauae the building waa
tao mmOI Id told all the pupil*.