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Fight Cancer With a Checkup And a Check CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES '<* 47th YEAR, NO. 29. THREE SECTIONS ? EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS New Oil Products Will Now Move To Local Port ' Stat* Approves Contract This Week on Animal, Vegetable, Fish Oils The State Utilities Commission has approved a contract between the Southern Oil Transportation Co. and Bulk Storage Co., More head City, to haul animal, vege table and fish oils from all points in this state to the Morehead City ' port for export. Robert Hicks, manager of the Bulk Storage Co., announced ap proval of the contract yesterday. Moving to the Morehead City port under this agreement will be cottonseed oil, peanut oil, tallow, fish oil and other similar oil pro ducts. Southern Oil Transportation, a tank trucking firm, has a branch terminal on Highway 70 just west of Morehead City At present all of North Carolina's animal and vegetable oils arc be ing transported to Philadelphia for export. Mr. Hicks said that ex porting the products out of More head City will mean a saving to exporters in freight costs. . Five Receive Beer Permits; One Denied County commissioners approved five beer permits and denied one at their meeting Tuesday after noon at the courthouse. None of the commissioners was in favor of allowing more beer outlets in the county, but accord ing to law, they have no choice. The law was read to them by the sheriff. It states that it is "mandatory" that they grant a beer permit unless the person ap plying for the permit has teen convicted of violation of a law or is known to be of ill repute. The commissioners said they dis liked being put in the position of , passing on the character of a man or woman. They advised the coun ty attorney, Alvah Hamilton, that a bill should be introduced in the 1959 general assembly .allowing them to approve or disapprove beer selling applications "at our discretion". There was no loophole in the law which would allow the com missioners to deny beer applica ? tions "because we have enough beer selling places already". It was the opinion of the board that the county needs no more beer retailers. Denied was a request for a beer license from Mary Bennett, for Mary's Drive-In, located west of Morehcad City. The place is owned, according to the applica i tion, by Mrs. Ann Avery. Permits were granted to Gerald S. Smith, Mom and Pop's, More hcad City; Julian Fulcher, Ful cher's Grocery, Highway 70; Wil liam R. Fox, Beach Seafood Mar ket. Atlantic Beach; Gerald C. Taylor, Fodric's Service Station, Beaufort; and Michael L. Taft, Morehcad Biltmorc Hotel. City Park Gets . $258 Contribution Earle W. Webb, New York City, has contributed $290 to the More head City municipal park. Mr. Webb is a native of Morehead City and spends part of each year at his home on Bogue Sound. The check was sent to Jasper Bell, Morehead City's commission er of buildings and grounds. Com missioner Bell is supervising con struction of the park which will ? have a launching ramp for small boats, picnic tables, and parking area. The park will be located on Evans Street extended on state property. It will front on Bogue Sound. Mr. Bell said that more than half of the area has been graded and readied for seeding, lie has asked cooperation of civic clubs in pre paring the park. Thus far, only three have re sponded, the Lions, with Grayaon Bullock as representative; Rotary, with Thomas Noe as representative and the Jaycccs, whose representa tive is Dr. Russell Outlaw. Mr. Bell said he could use some women's club assistance. A ay one who would like to give a cash contribution toward the park may send it to Mr. Bell. , Mr. Webb, in a letter accompan ing his contribution, said in part, "I recently read in THE NEWS TIMES about the city park. If properly developed and maintain ed, the park will prove moat bene ficial in many ways for the com m 1 1 nif v " Work Starts on New Well Photo by Bob Seymour Well drillers arrived in Beaufort late Monday and started putting down the new well for the town water supply. Drilling the well is the Layne Atlantic Co. C. V, . Williams, upper right, manager of the More head City-Beaufort office, Carolina Water Co., witches two workmen mix drilling clay. The clay is pump ed into the hole to keep the sand walls from cru'.ib' hg. At a depth of 8S feet, the drill was still chew ing through sand. Savings, Loan Association Will Open Morehead City Office in June Frederick Willetts Sr., president of the Cooperative Savings and Loan Association. Wilmington, an nounced Wednesday that a branch office of itir tfrm will open In Morehcad City between June 1 and June IS. The office wiil be located in the new building being erected at 10th and Arcndcll Streets, Morehcad City. Mr. Willetts reports that the state supervisor} department of the savings and loan association has approved a branch office in Morehcad City, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Greensboro and Washington, D. C., has con sented to the extension of the firm's lending limits. Mr. Willetts described his firm as being similar to a savings bank. Savings are accepted by the com pany and loans made. "Carteret citizcns can invest their funds at 3W per cent inter est," Mr. Willetts continued. "There will also be unlimited funds for lending purposes. This lending will be done on first mort gage real estate? principally on dwellings, although commercial property loans will also be con sidered." The Wilmington firm has es tablished a branch in Morehead City at the request of Morehead City businessmen interested in see ing home construction, through borrowing, made easier. The Cooperative Savings and Loan Association was organized in ISM and claims the record of hav ing operated 60 years without a loss. Mr. Willetts says it i> one of the largest and fastest growing institutions of its kind in North Carolina, with assets now approxi mating $18 million. Mr. Willetts has been associated with the business 36 years. He is a past president of the North Caro lina Savings and Loan League and a past director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Greensboro. ' Frederick Willetts Jr. it secre Frederick Willetts Sr. . . . president of firm tary-treasurcr and co-managcr of the firm, lie is a graduate of UNC and a savings and loan graduate of the University of Indiana. He was president of the Azalea Fes tival held recently at Wilmington. Management of thf Morchcad City office will be undtfr the super vision of Mr. Willetts Jr., who also supervises the branches in Wallace and Jacksonville. Attorneys and others to be con nected with ihc Morehead City office will he announced later. Mr. Willetts Sr. said Wednesday, "1 am looking with much pleasure to my association with the people the Morchcad City area, villi ? most sincere desire to Uc f great assistance to home owners and investors." Fireman Urges Peoplo To Call Right Station The Beaufjrt Fire Department has answered two alarms unneces sarily in the past two weeks. Both fires were - reported in the area served by the Marshallbcrg Firs Department. Beaufort engineer l-.lmond Rhue says that the Marshallbcrg Fire Department may be contacted by calling the Baptist parsonage, PA 9-3243; Claude Brown. PA 3-3412; Lester Murphy, PA 9*3247; or El wood Willis, PA 9-3300. Another Joins Battle 1. D. Murray. 309 S. 19th St., Morehead City, has joined the ranks of Carteret persors protest ing the phone rate raiso. Others who would like to .contribute io the East Carolina Phone Fight Com mittee may mail or take tbeir con tribution! to THE NEWS-TIMES Unemployment Claims Drop Fewer people filed claims at the employment security office, Morchcad City, last month than did in February, According to Mrs. Julia Tcnncy. managor of the office, a total of 2,523 persons filed claims during March. Of that number 194 were initial claims and 2,329 were continued claims. During February there were 2,880 claims filed in the of fice. The number of initial claims in the office has dropped steadily since January. In that month there were 562 new claims. In February there were 341 and in March there were 194. Mrs. Tcnncy lays that there arc 663 persons who are looking for work through her office. During March the office got calls for 123 job openings and placed 121 work ers. A good many of these posi tions, however, were temporary. Atlantic Men Propose Civic Club To Simulate interest in com munity affairs, an Atlantic civic club is being proposed. When only a few members turned up at the meeting of the Down East Fire Department last Thursday night, the Atlantic mem bers discussed a civic club. They would like both men and women to join. Sircc the Parent-Teacher Asso ciation is not functioning, tome sort of community-wide organiza tion may be valuable, the men re port. A meeting to discuss the new or ganization has been scheduled for 7 p.m. next Thursday at the fire department headquarters. County Board Sets Same Tax Rate , $1.35,. for 1958-59 Harkers Island Church Body Requests Tax Exemptions Oliver Griffin and Johnny Lewis, iwo of seven owners of the old school building on Harkers Island, isked the county Tuesday to re lieve them of taxes because the school is used as a church. Mr. Griftin said that the church is non-denominational and is known as the Free Grace Mission. As a church, he said, the owners thought it would be exempt from taxes. The county commissioners said that the only way the property would be eligible for tax exemp tion would be to have the deed registered in the name of the Flee Grace Mission rather than seven private owners. Commissioner Odell Merrill in formed them that it is too late to be relieved of 1958 taxes. (The school was bought by the present owners from a group of Kaleigh sportsmen). The board agreed to relieve Brunswick Navigation Co., Beau fort, of ad valorem taxes for five years, in accordance with the stip ulations set forth under the State Stream Sanitation laws. Claud Wheatly, attorney, ex plained to the board that Beaufort Fisheries, which has cooperated with Brunswick Navigation in es tablishment of a stickwater plant, was required to make use of such a plant to comply with law pre venting water pollution. Ruling Cited Mr. Wheatly reported that the attorney general has ruled that the stickwater plant is eligible for exemption of taxes for five years, providing the State Stream Sani tation Commission has issued it a Certificate of Compliance, indicat ing that the firm s operations are in connection with maintenance of pure waters. Mr. Wheatly said such a Certifi cate of Compliance has been Issued the firm. rue Doara too* under consider* Man ? proposal that it go on rec ord against removal of aircraft repair operations from Cherry Point to private industry. Congressman Barden, by letter, has informed the board that he doubts if a bill authorizing such (HR11094) will becomc law. The letter was read to the board. Request Tabled Tabled was a request from Rob ert Rouse Jr., solicitor for the fifth district, for $50 to help meet tuition expenses totalling $250 for a coursc at Northwestern Univer sity in August. The coursc, from* Aug. 4 to 8, would, he said, be of value to him as a prosecutor. Commissioners discussed the need for a special term of superior court, but at the advice of the county attorney, Alvah Hamilton, took no action pending a meeting of the County Bar Association. Cliff Edwards of a water soften ing scrvicc, appeared before the See BOARD MEETS, Page 2 Demolition Study To Start Tuesday A demolition team from Fort Bragg will conduct an eigbt-hour course here next week. The coursc will inatruct Civil De fense personnel on dismantling live bombs, how to care for onesaelf in a bomb attack and bow to pro tect life and property. The instruction will be given for two hours on four nights, begin ning Tuesday night at the National Guard armory, Morchcad City. Attending the coursc, in addition to Atlantic Beach Civil Defense personnel, will be members of the Greenville Rcscue squad, Newport Fire Department and the National Guard. Plans for the course were made by Bill Moore, Atlantic Beach dep uty Civil Defense director. Chamber Official . Reports On Many Mail Inquiries The Morehead Cily Chamber of Commerce got 243 inquiries about reaort facilities and 28S Inquiries about sports fishing during March, 'hamber Manager Joe DuBois re ported on office activities at a meeting of the board of directors Monday night at the chamber of fice, Hotel Fort Macon. Mr. DuBois reported that March was the most active month, cor respondence wise, in the history of the chamber. A total of 7*2 letters were answered. Chamber president Bud Dixan announced that he had appointed a special committee to select a Citizen of the Year far Moreheal L?y. ine person selected Dy uie committee will be honored at the annual membership banquet at the Morehead Blltmore Hotel Hay i. Guest speaker (or the banquet will be a vice-president of South pro Railway, Cliff Toal, head of [he industrial development division jf the company. Mr. DuBoia then read a letter, [rom Mason King, another vice l>rcsident of Southern Railway, submitting an application for membership in the chamber. The directors approved the hir ing of Mrs. Jeaninc Willis as full time attic* atcnUrjr. Beer Inspector Appears Before County Board V. W. Wrcnn, brer inspector with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, reported to the county board Tuesday that the State ABC board now requires a notice, in writing, that an applicant for a beer permit meet with the approval of the board. Mr. Wrenn said that he has six applications for new beer permits in this county pending. In the past, the county board has been approving or disapproving is suance of permits on the advice of the sheriff. A written notifica tion of the decision, as described by Mr. Wrenn, was not required. The commissioners decided to let the sheriff continue in an ad visory capacity on issuance of beer permits. The sheriff maintained that he was not going to sign any thing. Complaints Voiced Commissioner Skinner Chalk in formed Mr. Wrenn that he has been receiving complaints on the way in which beer places arc operated. He asked that the inspector take steps to close such places "if there's trouble". During the discussion, it was mentioned that if one person is de nied a beer permit, he applies for a permit in someone else's name and operates the place as he would have, had the permit been in his name. Motes Howard, chairman of the county board, said a new place if 'being built next to Ann's Place where beer will be sold. Neigh bors, he said, do not like the per son who is going to operate it and they're "in an uproar". The commissioners asked Mr. Wrenn just how he inspects a beer selling establishment, lie replied that he investigates "the most out standing places once a week" and looks (or violations of the liquor laws and beer regulations while there. Commissioner Harrcll Taylor asked if he itopa at nearby homes to inquire whether the beer outlet is troublesome. Mnst See Law* Broken Mr. Wrenn aaid that he does not because he must sec any viola tions. Then, he continued, it takes about 30 days to get the place closed, because hearings must be held in Raleigh and the violator given opportunity to get rid of stock on hand. Mr. Wrenn admitted that beer retailers know him and that when they see him coming, if anything is out of order, they can get things fixed up to meet his approval "in about a minute". Ann's Pla'ce, west of Morehead City, was specifically mentioned as a trouble spot. , Brown Boys Give Themselves Up It rarely happens, but it hap pened Tuesday. Three men walked in the sheriffs office and surrendered. They were Edward (Jack) Brown, his brother, Kenneth, and Willie Brown, a cousin. They told Sheriff Hugh Salter that he heard he was looking for them, so they came in. They were wanted for a series of break-ina. They told the sheriff that they were the ones who broke into Allen and Bell's Hardware store at Newport recently and took tools and $28.80. They also admit ted thefts in Moore and Cumber land Counties. Willie Brown was on probation, having been convicted in this county recently on a car theft count. All three were turned over to Moore County authorities yester day morning. At the time of the Allen and Bell robbery, Hibba Soda Shop and the Friendly Diner at Newport were also entered. The sheriff be lieves all three burglaries, com mitted March 23, were puilod by the Brown boys. Weather observer Stamry Davis says that hia thermometer la still out of order. He waa able to re cord only the minimum tempera tures this week. They follow : Monday, 52; Tuesday, 41; and Wednesday, 46. County commissioners have set the tax rate for the 1958 59 fiscal year at $1.35 per hundred dollars of valuation. This is the same rate that was in effect last year. This rate will not meet budget requests. To meet the request of the board of education the tax rate would have had to be raised 35 cents. To meet the request of the welfare department, the rate would have had to be raised - an additional 4 cents to a total of 39 cents, making the tax rate $1.74 per hundred dollars of valuation. The board is in sympathy with the needs of the county, insofar as schools are concerned, but the commissioners feel that with the tremendous investment needed in schools, the people should be al lowed to say whether taxes should I be increased to meet school build I ing costs and operation. James D. Potter, county auditor, remarked that in a referendum the people could vote on 1. Raising taxes to pay off bonds if the money is borrowed in a lump sum to build schools 2. Raising taxes to finance a pay as-you-go school program 3. Don't raise taxes at all and get along without new schools. How Apportioned With the exception of the money which goes to retire the county's debt, the school program and wel fare program get the lion's share of tax revenue. Each department | receives 20 cents of the $1.35 or a total of 40 cents. According to the proposed 1958 .V) budget, 23 cents will go into the general fund; seven cents to the health dpeartment and the remain ! iog 65 cents to retire the debt. Commissioner Skinner Chalk voted against the $1.35 rate. He maintains the tax rate should be raised to permit putting 90 cents toward debt retirement. The commissioners heard budget presentations from H. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of schools and Miss Gcorgie Hughes, wel fare superintendent. Accompany ing Miss Hughes were members of her board, Mrs. C. G. Holland, Cor bett Davis and Nathan Garner. School Request The board of edaeation haa re quested $244,076 thia year, as com pared with $95,S00 last year. Of the amount requested. $212, 000 is earmarked (or investment in new rooms, building sites and buildings. Fifteen thousand dol lars is requested for new sites and $160,000 to be set aside specifically for new buildings. While $160,000 would not go very far in putting up new buildings, it is the education board's theory that such amounts would be set aside annually until enough is available to start construction. Providing $116,000 total for schools this year would knock out all of the requests for new struc tures with the exception of a gym for Queen Street School : $34,000) and temporary buildings at More head City School. (Later at the education board meeting, the board members said they would not approve placing temporary buildings at Morehead City School. They said permanent rooms could be built at Camp See COUNTY BOARD, Page 2 Education Board Sets Next Year's School Calendar Appointments Made to Fill Vacancies on Four Local School Boards The County Board of Education adopted the school calendar for 1958-59 when it met Tuesday after noon at the education office in the courthouse annex, Beaufort. School will open next fall on Tuesday, Sept. 2, the day after Labor Day. There will be one holi day in October to allow teachers to attend an annual teachers' meet ing- Thanksgiving holidays will be [ Nov. 27 and 28. i An unusually long Christmas va cation will occur because New Year's Day of 1959 falls on a Thursday. Rather than return to school for one day, Jan. 2, school will not be resumed until Monday, Jan. 5. Easter holidays will be March 27, Good Friday, and March 30, Easter Monday. School will close May 29, 1959. Appointments maae Appointees were named to fill expired terms of certain school trustees. Raymond Ball and Halsey Paul were appointed to succecd them selves for three yeara on the Beau fort School board. Gerald Murdoch will succeed Abbott Morria on the Camp Glenn board. Truman Kemp will succeed George McNeill on the Morehead City board. Succeeding E. F. Car raway and Lloyd N. Gamer on the Newport board are Gerald T. Mer rill and Charles Hill. Budget Discussed The board discussed the 1958-59 budget. Members said that they were opposed to putting more tem porary rooms at Morehead City School. That may be one of the alternatives if the present build ing cannot accommodate all of next year's student body. The board approved the Rotary Club's uae of the Newport achool lunchroom for its meetings. The club will rent the lunchroom. Two members are still needed on the Smyrna Citizens for Better Schools Committee. No one has been named to fill the vacancies as yet. The board discusaed the physical condition of school buildings and sites for proposed schools. Presiding at the meeting was Robert Safrit Jr., chairman of the board. Swords of Hope Will Go To Crusade Contributors Red plastic sword lapel pins, symbol of the American Cancer Society, will be sold in downtown Beaufort and Morehead City to morrow. On the following day, Can cer Sabbath, a door-to-door solici tation in the two towns will be made. The Cancer Crusade is under the supervision of the Carteret Bus iness and Professional Women's Club. Crusade chairman for the coun ty is Hiss Lyda l'incr. Chairman for Morehead City is Mrs. James C.. Smith; for Beaufort, Mrs. C. L. Beam, and for the down east area, Mrs. John Valentine, Marshall berg. In charge of the sword-of-hope sale in Beaufort are Mrs. Earl Taylor and Mrs. Dan Walker. Sell Sec CRUSADE, Page X Tides at the Besafort Bar Tide Tabl* HIGH LOW Friday, April 11 2:06 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 1:44 a.m. 9:08 p.m. Saturday, April 12 3:05 a.m. 3:44 p.m. Sjuday, April 12 1:42 a.m. 10:07 p.m. 4:05 a.m. 4:42 p.m. 10:34 a.m. 10:56 p.m. Monday, April 14 5:00 a.m. 5:34 p.m. 11:20 a.m. 11.4* p.m. Twaday, April If 5:51 a.m. 12:04 a.m. I 6:18 p.m. Because of the small amount of money raised here in the cancer campaign last year, only $362 has been available in the county since then to help cancer patients or to educate persons on the importance of recognizing canccr symptoms. Miss Vivian May, Morehead City, president of the County Cancer So ciety, who has accepted the of fice within the past month, an nounced yesterday that $23 has been paid by the society on a drug bill for a needy canccr patient from Salter Path. Authorized by the society this week was the purchase of neces sary Items for a Beaufort resident who must undergo a cancer opera tion in May at Winston-Salem. She is the mother of five children, her husband U out of work and one of her children is now hospitalised. Funds given to the cancer so ciety help finance the cancer de tection-diagnostic center at James Walker Memorial Hospital, Wil mington. Any woman 33 and over and any man 40 and over may have a free examination. Any individual, re gardless of age, is examined it ? cancer symptom is present or if they an referred by their physi cian. Persons should write for an ap pointment to American Cancer So ciety, Box 13S2, Wilmington, N. a The examinations are scheduled for Tuesday m6raiags. Each per son given ail appointment will re ceive a pr .tcard stating the time
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