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46th YEAR, NO. 33. TEN PAGES TWO SECTIONS MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1957 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
The Rev. David Collins, University
Chaplain, to Speak in St. Paul's
Jaycee District
Will Meet Here
Next Weekend
The Jaycee ninth district fourth
quarterly meeting will be held at
Morehead City Saturday and Sun
day.
Saturday's schedule will include
entertainment and social activities.
Registration is to take place at the
Atlantic Beach Hotel from 11 a.m.
until 7 p.m. Saturday. During the
afternoon Jaycces are invited to
participate in a golf tournament,
nine holes, starting at 12 o'clock at
the Morehead City Country Club.
While the men are on the fair
ways, the women will be lounging
at the Atlantic Beach Hotel enjoy
ing the sand, sea and sun. Bridge
may be played in the sun room.
At 3 p.m. there will be a fashion
show.
The fashion show will use a
natural beach setting for display
ing beach wear and sports clothes.
Models will be: Lynn Hemdon,
Douglass Ann West, Betty Sledge,
Mary Sue Noc, Annette Cooper,
Fanclla Cooper, Catherine Grif
fin, Tressa O'Neal, Louis Bccton,
Virginia Morris, Albert Lea Jr.,
Carolyn Lea and Ruth Weber.
Hostesses for the afternoon are
Mrs. Delorcs Brady, Mrs. Gloria
Baugham, Mrs. Fayc Mills, and
Mrs. Louise Outlaw. Mrs. Jane
Carlson will direct the fashion
show. Charles Markey will be
master of ceremonies. Jaycee
wives and their guests are invited.
Saturday evening, also at the At
lantic Beach Hotel, there will be a
cocktail party for those who have
registered. This will be followed
by a dance to the music of Skin
Jones at the Blue Ribbon Club.
The business meeting will be
Sunday morning in the Morehead
Theatre. Breakfast will be served
those Jaycces attending. The ladies
will be offered a guided tour of
Fort Macon, thus ending the for
mal weekend program.
Court Rules
On Three Suits
Three civil suits have recently
been settled in superior court, ac
cording to A. H. James, clerk.
The court has ruled that Car
teret Hardware Co., plaintiff, shall
have immediate possession of
bathroom fixtures as the result
of breach of contract on the part
of John W. Avery.
The hardware company alleged
that Avery defaulted and the court
ruled that he owed $388.74 plus
interest from Nov. 19, 1956. It was
further ordered that the hardware
company repossess a water pump,
hot water heater, commode and
lavatory.
In the case of Belknap Hard
ware and Manufacturing Co. vs.
Bruce L. Goodwin trading as Good
win Hardware Co., the plaintiff
was judged entitled to possession
of merchandise valued at $8,041.90
and Goodwin was entitled to re
cover $912.97. lie was also ordered
to pay the costs of receivership,
$384.50, and other expenses incur
red by the court.
An application for pay of $270
by one Charles T. Marston was
ordered met by the Belknap firm.
The receiver was also discharged.
In the case Horace D. Cartwright
vs. William K. Glasgow, the con
troversy was compromised and the
ease dismissed.
County Requests
Law to Permit
School Bond Issue
Rep. P. G. Bell reports that the
county has requested him to in
troduce legislation which would
make it permissible for the county
to float school bonds upon ap
proval of the people.
Mr. Bell says that at present
there is restrictive legislation on
the books which could prevent a
school bond issue.
The legislator also says that he
has requested an answer by May
1 from the federal Fish' and Wild
life department as to their find
ings on food for waterfowl in the
Core and Boguc Sound areas.
He said that he has reason to
believe the federal government
will help this area solve its duck
scarcity problem.
OofK lo Durham
J. A. PuBois. president of the
North Carolina Highway 70 Asso
ciation, is attending a meeting of
the group today at the Washington
Duke Hotel, Durham. Charles
Hassing. Hugo, Okla., founder of
the national US 70 group, will
s0eak there.
The Rev. David B. Collins
. . . from Sewanee, Tenn.
NCFA Members
Asked for Advice
| Members of the North Carolina
Fisheries Association have been
invited lo New Bern at 2 p.m.
Friday lo discuss "fish hunts" with
federal Fish and Wildlife officials.
Federal research vessels have
been scheduled to work North
Carolina waters and Fish and Wild
life officials are interested in
learning what North Carolina fish
! ermen are interested in having the
vessels look for.
Meeting with the fishermen will
be G. B. Talbot of the Fish and
Wildlife laboratory, Pivers Island, j
and Harvey Bullis, head of gear
| research.
I The session will be held in the
conference room of the New Bern
| Chamber of Commerce office.
Lions Hear About
Navy Training
Don Avallone, Morchcad City,
training superintendent at the
industrial relations department.
Cherry Point, spoke to Morchcad
City Lions at their meeting Thurs
day night at the Hotel Fort Ma
con.
Mr. Avallone, who was intro
duced by Owens Frederick, de
scribed the Navy's on-the-job train
ing for young men. Under one pro
gram the students may attend col
lege for six months and work for
six months.
Hundreds of young men, he said,
have taken apprentice training at
the base and half have proceeded
to high-paying jobs from a start of
78 ccnts an hour.
Mr. Avallone emphasized that
boys interested in engineering
must take all the mathematics
possible in high school. The ma
jor block to entry of a youth in
the training program is his lack of
solid geometry and algebra, the
speaker said.
The speaker commented that the
United States Navy is the largest
industrial enterprise in the world,
bar none.
The club voted to buy a record
player and recordings for use by
the Boy Scouts.
It was reported that Oscar All
red who underwent an eye opera
tion recently, is recuperating satis
factorily.
The Lions will meet this Thurs
day with the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Rev. David Browning Col
lins, chaplain of the University of
the South. Sewanee, Tenn., will be
the speaker at the annual conven
tion service during the East Caro
lina diocesan convention at St.
Paul's Episcopal Church Beaufort.
The convention opens next Wed
nesday morning. May 1. and closes
the following afternoon.
The Rev. Mr. Collins is a native
of Hot Springs, Ark., and received
both his bachelor of arts and bach
elor of divinity degrees at the Uni
versity of the South.
He was ordained in March 11H9.
Before going to Sewanee, he
served as rector of St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church, Marianna, Ark.,
and pricst-in-chargc of Holy Cross
Church, West Memphis, Ark.
While a student at the University '
of the South, he was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic honor
ary; Omicron Delta Kappa and
Blue Key, service and leadership
honorarics.
During the second world war he
was a lieutenant in the Navy, serv
ing as communications officer.
The service at which the Rev.
Mr. Collins will speak, at 8:30 p.m.
May 1, is open to the public and
| will be held in St. Paul's Church
| which this year is celebrating the
hundredth anniversary of the build
ing of the sanctuary.
Historical Group
Hears Papers
By F. C. SALISBURY
Accepting the hospitality of Miss
Mary Whitehurst and her sisters
of Gloucester, the County Histori
cal Society met at the family home
Saturday afternoon for its spring
meeting. Members and guests,
numbering thirty, attended. Pres
ident Thomas Respess presided.
Two very interesting papers
were presented. Miss Josie Pigott,
who took as her subject the Gra
ham Academy, a former church
school located at Marshallbcrg, re
viewed the early history of this
school.
This academy, during its active
period, gave many young people
in the eastern part of the county
educational advantages that fitted
them for a professional or business
career.
That part of the county known
from the time of early settlers as
"The Straits," formed an interest
ing background for a paper pre
pared and read by Mrs. Nat Smith.
That section was one of the ear
liest settlements along the coast,
even before the formation of the
county.
Material covering the subject
showed proof that some members
of those early adventurers connect
ed with Raleigh's expeditions set
tled along the shores of "The
Straits" and Core Sound.
Reports were given by members
in charge of making detailed rec
ords of local and outlying ceme
teries. An invitation was extended
by A. I). Ennctt and John S. Jones
of Cedar Point to me?t at the En
nctt cottage on Boguc Sound for
the July meeting of the Society
and the annual watermelon cutting.
Five new members joined the
Society: Mrs. E. G. Phillips, Mrs.
Elizabeth II. llowland, Mrs. Hilda
Gillikin, Mrs. Essie Smith and
Miss Amie Klein.
The hostesses served delicious
homemade cake and coffee.
No Violations
A boarding party from the Fort
Macon Coast Guard Station went
aboard 38 vessels Sunday. No vio
lations were noted.
Omar Babun Burns
Photo by Bob Seymour
Th? Omar Babnn, north of (be Beanfort brU|?, was enveloped In amoke and llamea Friday, and
wben the amoke cleared away nothing but ? twisted main of metal and tome stubborn, water-logged
boards were left. The ship's owner, E. A. Canipe, burned the wooden portions of the vessel U get at
the scrap aaetaL
Rep. D. G. Bell
Says State Action
Can Halt Erosion
Carteret Lawmaker Says
Easement Down Center
Of Banks Needed
If the banks between Drum In
let and Ocracoke Inlet are to be
protected without further delay.
Rep. D. G. Bell says the Carteret
Hurricane Rehabilitation commit
tee should start now to get a 200
to 300-foot easement down the cen
ter of the banks.
Mr. Bell said the state can lake
action to begin anchoring the mo\ ?
ing sand, but it can do nothing
until permission of the private
property owners is obtained.
Discussing the matter at a con
ference with Governor Hodges Fri
day afternoon at Raleigh were
Representative Bell, Sen. Luther
Hamilton, Col. Harry Brown, State
Prisons Director Bailey and a rep
resentative of the attorney gen
eral's office.
"The governor is interested and
wants to be of help," Mr. Bell said.
He said that getting prison labor
on the banks to build up the strip
of land is something that can be
dune without trying to battle
through months of red tape with
the federal government.
To put the priso rs there would
require, however, Huymcnt of $5
per day per prisoner. To got that
money either the general assem
bly would have to appropriate the
money or a resolution could be
passed pointing out the need for
the work and asking that the
state's chief executive take the
responsibility for getting the work
done. Mr. Bell said he prefers the
latter.
Some persons have said. "Let the
state take the land on the outer
banks if it wants it," but Repre
sentative Bell pointed out that this
would take two years and a lot
of legal haggling. Obtaining the
casement would be speedier.
Chairman of the Carteret Hur
ricane Rehabilitation Committee,
which would handle the easment
project, is Cecil Morris, Atlantic.
Toastmasters Plan
Installation Night
Dr. Russell Outlaw will be in
stalled as president of the Car
teret County Toastmasters Club at
7 p.m. tomorrow in the Hotel Fort
Macon dining room.
Other new officers to be in
stalled at the special ladies night
program are Gerald Hill, adminis
trative vice-president; Dr. T. R.
Rice, educational vice-president;
Hugh Salter, sergeant - at - arms;
and Clifford Faglie, secretary -
treasurer.
P. H. Gcer Jr. will act as in
stalling officer. Dr. W. L. Wood
ard will be toastmastcr for the
ceremonies. Prepared speakers
will be Paul Bray, Clifford Lewis
and Jasper Bell.
Forest Ranger Says Dryness
Encourages Woods Fires
E. M. Foreman, county forest
ranger, declared yesterday that
people should take "all manner of
caution" to prevent forest fires.
The lack of rain for the past sev
eral weeks has crcatcd a condition
that breeds fire.
Mr. Foreman put out a fire yes
terday at Core Creek. It started
in a camp occupied by a colored
laborer and burned about two
acres of the surrounding area. The
forest ranger said that laborer,
who was unidentified, didn't know
how the blaze started.
Fifteen acres, mostly marshland,
burned at Markers Island Satur
day. The blaze resulted from some
one burning trash and letting the
fire get out of control.
Thirty acres of timber burned at
Sea Level Wednesday when a fire
around a church on Highway 70
got out of hand. The forest ranger
said people were cleaning up
around the church. A tractor was
used to plow fire lanes to stop the
blaze.
Woods at Crab Point burned
Tuesday a week ago, on the 16th.
Again the fire plow was used. This
blaze too started as the result of
carelessness in burning off land.
April's series of fires started
Sunday, April 7, when approxi
mately six acres of marsh and
woods burned at Long Bay. The
fire was put out by men using
back -pack pumps.
Mr. Foreman says he has also
been helping Craven County ran
gers fight fires in the Adams Creek
section. About five have occurred
in recent weeks.
Newport Town Board
Settles Land Transfers
The Newport town hoard met in I
special session last night to close |
negotiations on transfer of land I
to the Masonic Uxlgc and Wood !
men of the World.
The fraternal organizations r**
quested the land as sites for lodge
halls. To satisfy residents of West
Newport who do not want a com
mercial development in that area,
restrictions were agreed upon at
the special meeting.
The property the town is giving
the lodges is located across from
West Newport residences on the
Nine-Foot Road.
Fight Shapes Up at Newport
For Official Town Positions
Highway 70 Boosters
U.5
COAST TO COAST
Charles Massing, IIiiro, Okla., right, president of the US Highway 70 Association, will speak at the
Chamber of Commerce banquet at 6:30 Thursday night at the recreation building, Morehead City.
Other highway 74) boosters are, left to right. Worth Coofey, Vernon Pennington. Bob Hoffman, and I^eo
nard Schur, all of Vernon, Tex. Prior to coming here, Mr. Ilassing will speak to the North Carolina US 70
Association at Durham.
Two candidates are run
nine for mayor of Newport
and 12 men are vying for the
five places on the board of
town commissioners.
Opposing the incumbent, Mayor
Leon Mann Jr., is R. S. Jones,
freight agent for the Atlantic and
East Carolina Railroad at New
port.
Only three members of the board
are seeking re-election. They arc
Saturday is the last day to
register for voting in the town
election May 7. Registration
books in all towns will close at
9 p.m. April 27. Challenges will
be received after the books close.
To vote a person must have
lived in this state a year and in
the town in which he votes 30
days prior to the election.
Wilbur V. Garner, H. C. Gurgatius
and Bcnnic R. Garner. Commis
sioners Joe Cox and Prentiss Gar
ner arc not on the ticket.
Others running for commissioner
arc Ed Comer. Dick Lockcy, Jeff
J. Garner, J. Wheeler Smith, L. E.
Sanders, Louis Hibhs, Dewey
Phipps, Douglas Henderson and
Lester M. Garner.
Newport's deadline for filing was
6 p.m. Friday. All but Commis
sioners Bennic darner, Gurganus
and Lester M Garner filed a short
time before the deadline.
Mayor Mann said yesterday that
he appreciates the interest shown
in the election. He reminds every
one that if they have not voted in
a town election before they should
register by 9 p.m. this coming Sat
urday.
Candidates for office in Beaufort
have until April 26 to file and in
Morchcad City until April 27.
The election is Tuesday, May 7.
Three Fire Calls
Occur in Hour
The Beaufort Fire Department
answered three fire alarms within
an hour Saturday afternoon., The
first fire was at Live Oak and
Pine Streets, where brush was
blazing. The alarm went in at 2:05
p.ni.
At 3 p.m. Mrs. Aldina Rush
drove up to the station with her
horn blowing full-blast. The horn
wires had shorted out and caught
on fire under the hood. Firemen
used an extinguisher to put out
the fire.
At 3:05 p.m. the fire department
got a call from Gillikin Boat
j Works, Markers Island. Someone
burning trash had let the fire get
out of control and the boat yard
was threatened.
Trucks from Marshallbcrg and
Beaufort, as well as the forest
ranger station, were called in.
While there was a large fire, no
damage was done to buildings. The
rangers dug a trench around the
section of brush that was burning
and kept it in bounds while it was
being put out.
Chamber Manager Promises
Surprise at Coming Banquet
Four Tobacco
Ships Scheduled
Beginning with the Erlangcn.
which was loading yesterday at the
state port, four ships will call to
pick up tobacco within the next 10
days, reported J. D. Holt, port
manager, yesterday.
The Erlangen took on 1,200 hogs
heads of tobacco as well as fish
oil. The oil was trucked from Beau
fort. The Erlangen is bound for
European ports.
The I.udwigshafcn is due at
Morehcad City Thursday to pick up
tobacco and the Bischofstein will
arrive next Wednesday, May 1.
Taking on the first cargo of to
bacco to go from Morehcad City
to Korea will be the Steel Designer
which is due here during the next
week. That tobacco cargo will be
fumigated.
The Pioneer Wave, which took
on 1.700 tons of fish oil this week,
pumped out the last oil in the stor
age lank leased by fish oil ex
porters during the past season.
Mr. Holt said that the last of
the fish oil in the Beaufort-Morc
hcad City area has now moved
through the port.
A Navy-Marine movement is
scheduled for next Tubsday. Three
ships, reportedly bound for the
Mediterranean, are due.
Student Wrecks
New Automobile
Robert L. Woodard, a student at
Atlantic Christian College, wrecked
his new Ford on the Salter Path
Road Saturday night, April 13.
I Patrolman R. H. Brown, who in
I vestigated the accident the next
' day, said that Woodard was ap
i parcntly travelling east at a high
I rate of speed when he lost con
tori of the car and ran off an em
bankment.
A fellow student, Roger 11. Ens
ley, was riding with Woodard at
j the time of the accident. Neither
of the men were hurt. The car
was heavily damaged. It ran into
a tree after going over the em
bankment. Patrolman Brown es
timated the damage at $700.
Tide Table
Tides at (he Beaufort liar
IIIUII LOW
Tuesday, April 2.1
3:0? a.m. D:5fl a in.
3:51 p.m. 10:16 p.m.
Wednesday, April 21
4:04 a.m. 10:37 a m.
4:44 p.m. 11:04 p.m.
Thursday, April 2$
4:59 a.m. 11:21 a.m.
5:33 p.m. 11:50 p.m.
Friday, April 2*
5:49 a.m. ?
6:15 p.m. 12:02 p.m.
? A "surprise" is in store for
guests at the Morehead City Cham
ber of Commerce Banquet at the
recreation building at 6:45 p.m.
Thursday. Chamber manager Joe
DuBois says that an interesting
program is assured.
Charles Hassing, Hugo, Okla.,
will be the featured speaker.
Mr. Massing is the president of
the National US 70 Association.
He will drive all the way from
Hugo to Morehead City on US 70.
He will show how the promotion
of that highway helps all the bus
inessmen along the route.
Fred Clarkson, Morehead City
agent for development of the Hoff
man property on Bogue Banks
will make a report on his work.
Charles Markey, Morehead City,
will make a progress report for
the centennial committee. Mr.
Markey is chairman of the com
mittee.
Tickets are $1.50 per plate. Mr.
DuBois says that seating capacity
is limited, so advance tickets arc
being sold in member stores and
at the chamber officc.
Coastal Archers
Appear at Rotary
Dr. Berl Ray Lewis, David
Marks and Eddie Lancaster, mem
bers of the Coastal Archery Club,
gave an archery demonstration at
the Morehead City Rotary Club
meeting Thursday night at Flem
ing's Restaurant.
Dr. Lewis spoke on the sport
and demonstrations included shoot
ing out balloons and putting out
the flame on a candle.
The bow and arrow experts were
introduced by Grover Mundcn.
Lonnie Daniels was in charge of
the program. The club will meet
this week with the chamber of
commerce at the banquet Thurs
day night.
Ben Alford was a guest of Thom
as L. Noc, Manly Hincs of Wil
mington was Bob Howard's guest
and Ralph Butler, Richmond Hills,
Ontario, was a visiting Rotarian.
Town Buys Page
Ad in Booklet
The town of Morehead City con
tracted Thursday night at the com
missioners meeting for a page ad
in the centennial souvenir booklet.
The ad will cost $200.
Charles Markey, general chair
man of the Centennial, appeared
before the board and said that ad
vertising and sale of the booklets
will help pay for the cost of put
ting on the centennial celebration.
Thus far. he said, $4,500 has
been raised for the occasion and
$3,000 spent. At present, he con
tinued, the centennial committees
owe no bills.
One thousand dollars has been
paid to the printer as down pay
ment on the souvenir booklet and
a $1,059 bill for centennial caps
and berets has also been paid. Sold
to date arc 669 of the berets and
caps.
Mr. Markey said that it will Iks
essential also for the town to have
a float in the street and water
parades. 11c said that the parade
chairman, A. N. Willis, already
has commitments for 75 antique
cars and 19 floats.
"If we had this parade right
now, it would be three miles long,"
the chairman declared.
The town commissioners voted
to put a float in the parade.
Veterinarian Checks ,
Cattle for Bangs, TB
North Carolina was the first
state in the union to obtain a cer
tification that all its cattle were
free of Bangs disease and TB, ac
cording to county agent R. M.
Williams.
In order to maintain that cer
tification, the law requires a per
centage of all cattle in the state
to be re-cxa mined every three
years. Dr. P. E. Trainer, a state
veterinarian, is currently taking
blood samples from cattlc in the
county. There is no charge for the
service.
AAUW Will Sponsor Art
Exhibit Saturday, May 11
The sidewalk art exhibit to be
v|M>naored by the Bcaufort-Morc
head branch of the American Asso
ciation of University Women will
lake place Saturday, May 11.
The artwork will he displayed
on S, Eighth Slrcet next to Knse's
5 and 10. announces Mrs. Milton
lloush. co-chairman of the event.
All artists of this area arc in
vited to exhibit their work. There
is no entry fee and there will be
no judging. "This is an exhibit to
crcate community interest in art,"
Mrs. Roush said.
Mrs. Harry Venters, co-chair
man. requests that ill sketches or
painting* be either framed or
matted. Each artist will be re
sponsible fur gutting bis work to
the exhibit and taking it homo.
The exhibit is scheduled to start
at 10 a.m. and artwork will be on
display throughout the day.
Among those who have thus far
agreed to contribute work are Lt.
I'dr. John MacCormack, Atlantic,
Mrs. James Piner and Mrs. M. L.
Davis, Beaufort, and I)r. W. M.
Urady, Morehcad City.
Mrs. Roush reports that Elmer
Watson, manager of Rose's, has
offered his full cooperation in fur
nishing necessary "props" for ex
hibits. It is suggested that artiaU
who have their own easels bring
them. I
In case of rain, the exhibit will
be held in the civic center, Ninth
and Evaas Street*.