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Ruby Chadwick, John Jarman To Reign at Festival Tonight NCFA Pleads Fisherman'sCase Members of the North Carolina Fisheries Association have pled the fisherman's cafe before the joint finance committee of the general assembly. At a recent hearing in Raleigh, the NCFA said that the fishermen were not in favor of a proposal to put a sales tax on gear and other items bought by the fishermen. The NCFA members asked for the same lenient treatment given farmers. Members of the fisheries delega tion were Clayton Fulcher Jr.. W J. Ipock, (iarland Fulcher, Ottis Purifoy, Ralph Mayo, Karl Hoi ton, Roy Watson. T. B. Smith, Clyde Potter and Fred Whitaker. Coastal lawmakers at the hear ing included Rep. D. G. Bell and Sen. Luther Hamilton from Car teret, Sen. John Dawson, Sam Whitehurst. Dick O'Neal, Ned Del amar. Carl Venters and Tom White. At the April meeting of the NCFA board of directors. New Bern, a resolution was passed ask ing that action be taken to pre serve the outer banks. The state commercial fisheries committee was also asked to make regula tions prohibiting the dumping of shrimp heads overboard. Garland Fulcher, president of the NCFA. and Mr. Whitaker, ex ecutive secretary, represented the association at last week's Rivers and Harbors meeting at Raleigh. Mrs. E. A. Council. Morehead City, has filed for office of More head City Hospital trustee. She is a member of the present board. ? Iluby Chiulwick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Taylor. Harlowe, tad John Jarman, *on of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Jarinan, Wire Grass, will Ik* crowned queen and king I of the Spring Festival at 8 tonight on the Beaufort athletic field. They were elected by vote of the higti school students and wiM reiu* throughout the pageant. Other members of the court from | the high school are Mona House ami Julius Dunn. Jackie Youftg J and Bobby Merrill, Sue Webb and Joey Pake, Paula Hill and H. D. Paul, Nancy Pitt man and John Smith, Ann Davis and Jack Ix?wis, Joanne Allen and Sandy Arthur, Patricia Lupton and Butch Has sell. Omitted from the list of princes and princesses in the grammar grades, published Tuesday, were the names of Becky Smith and | William Lewis. All members of the court will be presented prior to the crowning of the king and queen by Brig. Gen. E. A. Mont gomery, commanding general. Cherry Point Marine Air Base. Tickets will go on sale at 7 to , night at the gate, but those who wish to get tickets in advance may pick them up at the Duchess Beauty Shop in the Merrill build ing, Beaufort. Admission is a dol lar for adults, 50 cents for stu dents and no charge for pre-school ers. 1,300 Seats Available Mrs. Wiley Lewis, chairman of the ways and means committee of the PTA which is sponsoring the festival, announces that 1,300 seats are available. First-come get the seats. Freshman ushers, wearing green arm bands, will be on duty. They will be Wiley Lewis Jr., Douglas Swain. Calvin Jones, Guion Dud ley, Freddy Hooper and Clifford Lewis. The king and queen will be seat ed on a decorated throne. Their crowns will be of silver. Other members of the court will wear floral crowns. Hie program will open with two numbers by the chorus. Welcome Sweet Springtime and This is My Country. Tha chorus is under the direction of Mrs. Robert Finer. Tile grand procession of dancers will follow A trumpet fanfart- wtll herald presentation of the court. Another fanfare will precede the entrance of General Montgomery who will be eacorted by drum ma jorettes. Entering with the gen eral will be the flower bearers and crown bearers. Flags to be Presented After the king and queen ascend the throne, flags of nations will be presented. The dance program will follow. To the tune of Japanese Sand man. grade 1 will present a Japa nese dance. Dutch couples from the second grade will follow. Third graders will present a Swedish klapdans, fourth graders a Swiss dance, fifth graders a French min uet, another group of fifth grad ers the Virginia reel. Seventh graders will present a Spanish dance, an oriental rain bow dance will be done by seventh and eighth graders, the Newcastle, an English dance, by ninth grad ers. a Viennese dance by eighth graders, and sixth graders will do the English American Maypole dance. The chorus will sing One World, followed by the audience and chorus singing God Bless America. During the recessional, the au dience will remain seated. The general and Mrs. Montgom ery will be seated in a special box decorated in red, white, and blue, with Mayor and Mrs. Clifford Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood Phillips. The festival dances have been directed by C. F. Jones, public school music teacher, assisted by members of the faculty. Music will be provided by the high school band. Sea Level Chamber Will Elect Directors at Meeting Next Friday Spelling Champ Will Compete At Wilmington The county spelling champion, Rose Arthur, will compete in the regional finals in Wilmington April 10. Hose, who is in the eighth grade at Smyrna, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ster ling Arthur of Bettie. She won the title last Wednes day at Atlantic School, edging Jean Bell of Atlantic, who was second. Other children in the con test (limited to students in grades 5 through 8) were Brenda Smith, Camp Glenn; Olivia Yeomans, Harkers Island; R. L. Culpepper, Newport; Sue Thompson, More head City, and Lillie Grace Her bert, Beaufort. Fred G. Lewis, county school supervisor, promoted the contest. Herbert Phillips, Morehead City, called the wonds. Judges were H. L. Joslyn, county school superin tendent, Homer Lassiter, Raleigh, and J. W. Kellogg. Morehead City. Mr. Phillips went all the way through the speller used in county schools and several contestants were still standing. A supplemen tary list including such words as carnivorous, capillary, cadence and beneficence, finally proved too tough for everyone but the champ. Rose won a two-year scholarship to Wilmington College worth $200 per year as well as a berth in the district finals. Her teacher, Miss Josie Pigott, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Joslyn plan to accompany Rose to Wilmington. Yale Has Same Schedule far 1957 New Haven, Conn. CAP) ? Odd thing about Yale's 1957 football schedule of nine games is that it will meet all of its 1956 opponents in the same order next season. The Ivy League champions will play six home ?ames, traveling only to Ithaca to meet Cornell, to Philadelphia to play Pcnn and to Princeton to face the Tigers. ALERT TODAY ALIVE TOMORROW A ?trtnf CivH H?lpf mall* Hw MMy It) ink twk?! A director from each of the down* east communities encompassed by the Sea Level Chamber of Com merce will be elected at the an nual membership banquet next Friday night. May 3, at the Sea Level Inn. The dinner meeting will start at 7 30 p.m. The guest speaker will be Eric W. Rodgers, editor of the Scotland Neck Commonwealth. Joe Mason, chamber secretary, reports that other distinguished speakers are expected. Clayton Fulcher Jr., Atlantic, president, will preside. A letter announcing the dinner was mailed to members this week. They arc asked to make reserva tions by returning an enclosed post card. The dinner will be baked ham, green beans, candied yams, tossed salad, coffee, rolls, butter and ap ple pie. Men are invited to bring their wives. Directors elected at last year's meeting were Roy Eubanks, Beau fort; Charles Harris Jr., Marshall berg; Gaston Smith, Atlantic; Mon roe Gaskill, Cedar Island; Mrs. Bessie Howard, Ocracoke; Samuel Leffers, Straits; Lester Gaskill, Sea I<evel. T. B. Smith, Davis; Jim Harker, Markers Island; H. G. Willis, Smyrna; Wesley Willis, Williston; Leolden Gillikin, Otway; M. L. Pigott, Gloucester; Arthur Mason, Bettie; Miss Georgina Yeatman, Merrimon. Wives Watch Lawmakers Clean Cluttered Desks Santa Fe, N. M. (AP)? When the 1957 New Mexico Legislature adjourned recently most lawmak ers scurried around with cardboard boxes cleaning out their cluttered desks. Someone noted that at least a half a dozen senatorial wives were in the upper chamber at the time ?and none made a move to give an assist to the housecleaning. Natural gas is now the sixth largest industry in the U.S. Coast Guard (Continued from Page 1) and EN/1 Tafl Pilcher went to the scene of the accident in the 40 footer. BMC James Gaskill Jr., SK/3 Edward Privott and SN Aulcie Farmer went in the power wagon, a heavy duty truck. The three boys were ashore and working on the boat when the Coast Guardsmen arrived. Haywood Snell, Morehead City, found a 12-foot outboard motor boat overturned in the surf at At lantic Beach. He called the Coast Guard and described it to them. The boat turned out to be one which had drifted away from a dock at Carolina Beach April 7. EN/1 Earl Sells and SN Denard Lawrence picked up the boat at the beach. Fifty workmen were needed re cently to wash the 67-year accum ulation of dirt from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Vic Vet jays 'v* PfNSMMCM MRU MTWM THM ANNUAL MCOMf OJfSTION NAMr? TO WA WITHIN ?> OAYt MOM BATE Of WSIPT. W TMIY OON'T, THtlB PAYMENTS MAY , u st oersn j- ? -4 ^ \j ? F?r fall InUrMilM r*nt?rt r*mt wmrt VKTKRANH AOMINISTMATION GtW SEVEN STAR 90 PROOF 050 3?5 mnt 4/t m G?W SEVEN STAn SBtmJSMCUp MV?N M. RMOiO VMIMIV. M MOO*. ?r*% tTMIOHT WHIMCVY ? YUM M ROM OiO. Ml M MAIN HW TtM VMNTI. OOOMtHAM 4 WO?t? lTO? HNM, ftL J. A. DuBois Gels New Office J. A. DuBois, Morchead City, re tired as pmidcnt of the North Carolina Highway TO Association Tuesday at Durham and was fleet ed to tlh' oMrc of seeretary treas urer. Mrs. Clayton Fulcher Jr., Allan tie, was elected vice-president, rep rvsentinp the counts! area. Other vice-presidents art WUliam P. Spence, MMItory, mountain area, and Carl Sapp, Durham, the Pied mont. Charles D. Cunningham, Lexing ton, was elect i'd president. Hw state association voted to join the national Highway 70 Asso ciation, leaving one state in tfce coast-to-coast set-up to be organ ized, Tennessee. The state association decided at its business meeting Tuesday to do more advertising and to have sta tionery printed bearing the slogan, Travel US 70 Coast-to-Coast. The association met at the Wash ington-Duke Hotel. There were representatives present from High Point to the coast. Rome was founded in 753 B.C. 95 Years Ago United States Forces Captured Fort Macon By F. C. SALISBURY Reveille sounded early on the morning of April 25. 1862?05 years ago? for the men of the Union Army who were camped in the sand dunes on Bogue Banks. It was the hour of battle when these soldiors were to match might against might with those soldiers in Fort Macon, for the possession of the guardian of Tupsail Inlet. As the last note- of tt?e bugle died away, from tku- rampart of. the fort tl?? ?tam and bars was unftorled to the mornfeig htyezc as though a challenge to the invaders to come and get it. This flag had been made by the women of Beau fort from a Union flag at the time the fort was seized by tlie ' Old Topsail Riflemen" on April 14. 1861, a month before North Caro lina left the Union. Twelve hours later from the staff on the rampart was displayed the white flag of surrender. Firing ceased The following day, out I through the portals of the fort I I marched the prisoners, who had I been given their parole, with their wounded and aeven dead com | rades. The Union loss was only two | dead. Again the stars and stripes floated over tha fort, thus ending one of the shortest and most de cisive battles of the Civil War fought in North Carolina. With the opening of the battle in the early hours of the morning, reverberations from the artillery duel caused many a person in Moreheod City and Beaufort to be aroused W indows for miloa around rattled. Citizens of the towns lined the streets and porches, watching as best they could, the battle rag ing throughout the day. From out af many a chest of a seafaring aneester came an an cient spyglass, the better to see the hits made by cannon and mor tar. Men of the Signal Corps were located at vantage points in each town to communicate by sema phore to the gun batteries the cor rection of range. Pari Macon was abandoned in 1178, and was briefly garrisoned during the Spanish-American War and World War tl. Today U forma part of (he moat popular State Park in North Carolina. Ohio Man Asks for Home In City Jail for Winter Lima, Ohio (AP)? A Lima man was unsuccessful again recently in an attempt to make the city jail his permanent winter home. Arraigned in municipal court on a drunk charge, he scolded Judge Carl M. Blank because *\ . . you only gave me seven days last time when I asked for 30." "Ten days," ordered the judge. Wrong Site Anadarko, Okla. (AP) ? Ray mond Brooks found a pair of auto j mobile fender skirts at his back . door with a note reading "Don't j fit." He investigated and found , someone had taken them from his car. Schools Help With Easter Fund Mrs Thomas L. Noe, general chairman of the Rafter Seal cam paign. yesterday reported on money raised by the schools The amounts are as follows: Beaufort $128. Morehead City (85. S3. Newport $77.08; Camp Glenn $69.97, Smyrna $37.06. Queen Street $21.58, W. S. Ki'.? $10, and Markers Island $1(69. Mrs. Noe expressed her appre ciation to the principals, teachers and pupils for their cooperation. Receipts on lily sales have not yet been totaled, nor have coin col lectors been picked up. 1'eraons who have not yet contributed to the drive may mail their checks to Mrs. B. F. Royal, Morehead City,. The funds aid crippled children and adults. Looking for Pictures Ben Alford, editor of the More head City Centennial booklet, is looking for pictures showing More head City as it used to be. Any one who has old pictures can con tact him at Herald Printing Co. APRIL RANGE SALE BICCEST RANGE BARGAIN IN HISTORY ? tiutpgint ? ? ? Giant Super Oven Hu hi-speed bake and broil unit*. New, silver-grey lining for easy cleaning. Giant capacity cooks complete meal for 24 and roasts ? 40 lb. turkey. ? Automatic Oven Temperature Control Signal light tells when selected temperature reached and main tained. ? Largo Crisper-Stor Convenient storage for cereals, crackers, etc. ? One-Hour Minuto Timer Accurately times all cooking operations from one to 60 minutes. ? Reversible Roto-Switches Turn right or left for easy selec tion of measured heats for each surface unit Pure silver contacts aasure longer life. ? Titanium Paitalain Finish ? Applianca Outlet for iron, toaster, radio, etc. ? CoM Surface Units coils sealed for IS years or more of dependable service. ? Deluxe 19S7 Styling ? Circuit Braaker ? Extra Deluxe Features large porcelain broiler-roaster pan, adjustable leveling legs, drip-tray, shelf position guides. NOW ! ASK TO HI MODEL M il * 1957 ' SPECIAL DELUXE ELECTRIC RANGE ) SPECIAL SALE PRICE I ONLY 25CA DAY PRICI VNCLUDQ INSURANCI AND FINANCI CHARSU And Your Old Range . NO MONEY DOWN WHEN YOU TRADE ... we show model numbers so you can iuy as advertised. Blanchard's Electric Service PHONE 6-3230 119 ARENDELL STREET MOREHlAD CITY
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