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SB (ARTtRET (0UW1Y (tWS-TIMES . * 47th YEAR, NO. 80. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. APRIL 15, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDi Two Sea Level Mothers Die ? I . , In Auto Accident Sunday Mrs. Norwood Gaskill, 36, and' Mrs. William Gaskill Jr., 26, both of Set Level, were killed in an automobile accident at 9:08 p.m. Sunday in the suburbs of Wash ington, N. C. Their three children are in serious condition at the Tayloe Hospital, Washington. A third accident victim is Thomas Bellamy, 33, Washington, N. C., who was killed. The condition of the children was reported yesterday by Bonner Pdul, Beaufort County coroner, to be serious. Injured are Mrs. Wil 1 liam Gaskill's S-year-old son and Mrs. Norwood Gaskill's 9 and 11 year-old daughters. They had num erous fractures. Coroner Paul said that the elder Mrs. Gaskill was driving a 1955 Chevrolet south on Highway 17 when Bellamy, driving a 1955 Mer cury, backed out in front of them. Bellamy was operator of the Ben field Motor Court, located about a quarter of a mile from where the accident happened. Coroner Paul said that the chil ' dren are expected to be brought to Sea Level Hospital as soon as they can be moved. He said be cause drivers of both automobiles involved are dead, there will be no inquest. The bodies of the Gaskill women have been sent to Morehead City to Bell and Munden Funeral Home. Time of the funerals had not been > set by press time yesterday. William Gaskill Jr. went to Washington yesterday morning. His wife is the former Betty Mil dred Taylor. Norwood Gaskill was in Florida at the time of the accident. He has been fishing there. His wife was the former Bernice Lewis. Mosquito Control Group to Meet Sea Level citizens interested in mosquito control will meet at 8:30 Saturday night at the Sea Level Inn. Joe Mason, secretary of the Citi zens Mosquito Control of Sea Level, reports that 400 oil soaked saw dust bags were dropped in marsh areas in and around Sea Level > several weeks ago. The organization asks all Sea Level residents to support its work by attending meetings of the club, donating to the club treasury, giv ing time to filling bags with saw dust, collecting oil, and eliminating breeding places on private prop erty by disposing of receptacles in which water collects, and drain low places. us far 22 citizens and the Down East Lions Club have con tributed $128.25 to the work. Sea Level residents are invited to mail contributions to Citizens Mosquito Control, Sea Level, N. C., or give them to Aldridge Daniel*, Ewell Taylor, Alvah B. Taylor, Milton Lupton or Joe Mason. New Beach Town Hall Will be Ready Soon Truck Collides With School Bus In Morehead City A truck collided with a W. S. King School bus at 2:40 Thursday afternoon it Fisher and 19th Streets, Morehead City. No one was hurt but damage to the bus was estimated at $500 by Herbert Griffin, Morehead City police chicf, who investigated. The bus was being driven by James McKinley Mumford, route 1 Newport. The truck, a 1951 Chev rolet owned by Morehead Builders Supply, was being driven by James F. Sanderson, 307 N. 7th St., More head City. According to Chief Griffin, the truck was going north on 19th and turned right on to Fisher. The bus was going west on Fisher and as Sanderson made the turn he ran into the front of the bus. Chief Griffin said bushes at the corner made visibility poor and Sanderson apparently didn't see the bus. The center of the truck hood was smashed in. Ita damage was estimated at $200. The bus had to be towed from the scene. About a doien children were on the bus. S. R. McLendon, school principal, had the children taken home in his car and another bus from the garage v.as sent to make the other scheduled trips of the bus that day. No charges were nkx) Colored Child Seriously Burned Five-year-old Joyce Ann Prid gett, daughter of Roy Pridgett, Beaufort, was severely burned Sat urday night at her grandparents' home at Adams Creek. She is in a critical condition at the More head City Hospital. The entire upper part of Joyce Ann's body is burned and she is ex pected to be blind, if she survives. According to her father, Joyce was reaching across a stove to get a bottle of alcohol on the mantle. The bottle fell and exploded. Flames leaped up, burning the lit tle girl. She lives with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Pridgett. Flames Wrecked Atlantic Hotel 25 Years Ago Today By F. C. SALISBURY If the date of the burning of the Atlantic Hotel in Morehead City was one of the $64,000 questions, it is doubtful if many of the older residents of the city could give the correct date? Saturday before , Easter, April IS, 1933 ? just 25 years ago today. t The burning of this structure was one of the most spectacular fires ever to occur in Carteret County. The cause of the fire was unknown. It broke out at noontime Workmen had been getting the building in condition for the sum mer season A firemen's dance had been held in the famous ball room the night before. With a head start from the in terior, backed by a stiff north caster, its timbers of seasoned 4 heart pine presented a battle that no amount of water could conquer, despite the efforts of the local fire department, assisted by the de partment from Beaufort. There was no stopping that fire. The wind, carrying large burn ing embers, kept many a property ) owner nearby, busy on his roof dousing shingles with water fur niahed by neighborly bucket bri gades. What memories cluster about this summer resort of days past? Here the elite of the state, as well as many in the lower social scale, were regular summer patrons. The arrival of the daily trains, morning and night, was the big event of the day. The trains stopped under the umbrella shed directly in front of the hotel. What a welcome you received if you . were one of the yearly regulars. There was sure to be some mem ber of the old clique in the crowd, who had arrived earlier, to greet you. If you were a newcomer, as you entered the lobby, you might have noticed the governor and other ?tate official! in a political huddle, while a group of dowagers, on the porch or in the lobby, would give you the "once over." At the desk the manager or clerk over the years could have been: John C. Plank, A. J. Cook, R. P. Foster, W. C. Harris, B. H. Grif fin, Scoville Brothers, Claude or Edward Barbee, Frank Martin, and in later years W. M. Webb or D. G. Bell. Making a request for room with bath, you would be informed that such rooms had been reserved for weeks in advance. You later learned that the hotel had only See HOTEL BURNS, Page t ? The Atlantic Beach municipal building will be completed by May, according to commissioner Milton Coyle. Mr. Coyle said Saturday morning that the next board of commissioners meeting would be conducted at the new building. The commissioners were meeting then at Fleming's Motel. Civil defense director Jack Sav age met with the board and report ed an offer from Sound Chevrolet Co. to service the fire truck. The garage wanted to send a man every three months to take the truck on a road run and do general main tenance work. The offer was accepted. New Signs Police Chief Bill Moore reported that he had erected new traffic signs along several roads on the beach. He also said tint the police station had been moved a short dis tance behind its former location. Dr. Bizzell asked town clerk H. M. Eure to write Congressman Graham Bardcn and request fed eral funds for building a town reservoir as a water supply source. Commissioner A. F. Fleming made a motion that the town take over the neon sign at Arendell and 24th Streets. The sign has been out of order most of the winter. Commissioner Barefoot seconded the motion which was passed after some discussion about getting funds from the businessmen's asso ciation to help repair the sign. Meiers Suggested Dr. Bizzell suggested that park ing meters be installed around the recreation area of the beach. Mayor A. B. Cooper said that it would probably be a good method of controlling parking in some of the more congested areas. The town clerk was instructed to write the League of Municipali ties to ask for information about buying the meters. The date of the next meeting was moved up from May 1? to May 3 so ill the commissioners could be present. Moving Van Skids into Ditch A moving van jack-knifed and turned over in a ditch on Highway 70 at 11: SO Thursday morning. No one wai hurt but damage to ve hicles involved was considerable. The accident happened about a quarter mile west of the Highway 24 and 70 intersection. The van, a IKS Chevrolet, was owned by Acme Movers and Stor age. It was driven by Samuel LJoyd Smith, Morehead City. Driv ing a 1957 Ford pickup truck, which was in front of the van, was Charles Ed Gorum, 60S Mulberry St., Beaufort. Patrolman R. H. Brown, who investigated, said that the pickup was headed west, behind a log truck. The log truck slowed down, the pickup slowed, and the driver of the van, which was behind the pickup, applied his brakes. As be diid, the van skidded, hit the left rear of the pickup, turned completely around and went on its light side Into the ditch by the highway. There was about a ton of furniture in the van. Damage to the pickup, owned by Rosalee La wis Davis. Beaufort, was estimated at 1350. Damage to the van and furniture in It was estimated at $500. Patrolman Brown filed no charges. He said it had been rain ing and the road was wet. Fire Destroys Two-Story Home On Highway 111 Two Families Lose All Their Possessions In Saturday Blaze Two families were burned out when the two-story frame house on Highway 101, across from Laugh ton's garage, was destroyed by fire at about 3 a m Saturday. Living in the home were Mrs. Mary McLawhorn, her grown son, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Decker and their six children. Mrs. Decker is Mrs. McLawhorn's daughter. No one was home at the time of the fire. Neighbors reported that most of the family had gone to Fayetteville and some of the children had been sent to stay with relatives at Ot way. Everything they owned was lost in the blare. Persons who would like to give clothing, food, or a cash donation to the families may leave them at the home of Mrs. N. A. Avery, who lives a short distance from the burned home on the op posite side of the highway. The children range in age from 2 to 12. All are girls with the excep tion of a boy who is 3. The two women wear a size 9 dress. Mrs. McLawhorn is reported staying with a daughter, Mrs. Mary Wilson, on the Beaufort Morehead causeway, and the Deck er family is staying with relatives in Morchead City. Mr. Decker operates an electric repair shop at Newport It is not known how the fire start ed. A passing motorist saw flames leaping out of the roof. When he beat on the door of the house and got no answer, he blew his horn until he roused the neighborhood. The house was beyond saving when Beaufort firemen arrived. All that was standing yesterday was the chimney. Mrs. McLawhorn owned the house. She and her family have been living there for a number of years. Members of the RumcUs Creek Home Demonstration Club and churches are collecting items to help out the fire victims. Firemen, Rotary To Give Play The rural comedy, Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, will be present ed Friday night. April 25 in the Newport High School auditorium. The play will be sponsored by the Newport Rotary Club and Fire De partment. This play, one of the most wide ly acclaimed of all rural comedies, has been on more than 50,000 stages all over America. Members of the cast are Henry C. Edwards, Alberta Mann, Derryl Garner, Christobel Cannon, Julia Creech, Nathan Garner and Fran ces Howard. The director is R. E. Montague. Tickets for the play are on sale at W. B. HU1 Market and Grocery, Hlbbs Soda Shop and at Hlbbe Furniture Store. The cost is $t for adults and 50 cents for children. Car Rams into Open Door Of Vernon Garner's Auto A 1(55 Mercury driven by Horace Ray Holland. Beaufort, ran into an open door of a 1953 Ford owned by Vernon P. Garner, Morehead City. According to patrolman E. D. O'Neal Jr., Mr. Garner opened the door of his car just as Mr. Holland was driving by. The accident occurred in front of Mr. Gamer's service station on 18th Street. Patrolman O'Neal did not estimate damage to the ve hicles. Scouts Hear Safety Pointers HerfceH Griffta, Morehead Ctty police chief, fives safety talk to Newport Boy ScoaU. ' ?? f - Small Shrimpers Buck Big Operators at Hearing The Happy Times Appears Today Id today's paper is a special section (or boys and girls, The Happy Times. This feature will appear each Tuesday. In this "boys and girls' newspaper" will be a story, fun nies, Scout news, and pictures. Not only that, but a special birthday club, open to boys and girls up to 12, is ?ow being spon sored by THE NEWS-TIMES. Turn to page 6 and read all about it. First Quarter Liquor Sales Total $115,835 Sales at county liquor stores for the first quarter of 1968 totaled $115,835.30 as compared with sales totaling $121,428.50 for the first quarter of 1957. January sales this year amount ed to $38,514.70; February sales. $35,339.05 and March, $41,981.55. All showed a slight drop from sales for the corresponding month a year ago. January 1958 sales at the three stores were as follows: Ueaufort $12,867.15, Morehead City $18, 411.50, Newport $7,238.05. Revenue received by the towns and county was Beaufort $438.51; Morehead City Hospital $627.45; Newport $246.80; and the county $1,003.36. Deducted from the county's share was $309.20 in payment on a new ABC board truck. February sales, by town: Beau fort $11,625 85, Morehead City $16, 890.70, Newport $6,822.50. Received by each town: Beaufort $426.13, Morehead City Hospital $619.11, Newport $250 07, and the county $985 31. which waa the balance after $300 was deducted m the new track payment. March sales: Beaufort $13,562.20, Morehead City $20,611.65, Newport $7,887.70. Proceeds to each town: Beaufort $518.30, Morehead City Hospital $787.71; Newport $296 39 Paid to the county was $1,904.40, the amount left after the third pay ment of $300 on the truck. Three Counhans See New Movie Three residents of the county at tended the premiere of V ndjam mer Wednesday night in New York. They were Mrs. W. A. Mace, Beau fort, mother of Borden Mace, the film's associate producer; Mrs. George R. Wallace, Morehead City, sister of Mr. Mace, and Mrs. G. D. Gamble of Morehead City. The film, in Cinemiracle wide screen process, details the adven tures of a group of Norwegian ca dets on a 17,500-mile voyage aboard the S/S Christian Radich, one of the last of the three-masted square riggers still afloat. It was directed by Louis de Rochemont HI and Bill Colleran. Notables from the worlds of di plomacy, society, stage and screen who attended the premiere in eluded Norwegian Ambassador Paul Gruda Koht. Norwegian Am bassador to the UN Hans Engen, Admiral Ralph Westbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Murrow, Mr. and Mrs. David A. Sulzberger. Dr. and Mrs. James E. Ziegler, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lehman, Mrs. Claire B. Bach, Mr. and Mrs. My ron I. Borg Jr., Mr. and Mrs. An thony D. Hoagland, Mr. and Mrs. J. MacNaughton Thompson. lmogene Coca, Shirley Booth, Joe E. Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Sophie Tucker, Lili Darvas, Celeste Holm, Robert Q. Lewis, Jackie Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Johnny Desmond. Gretchen Wyler, Hiram Sherman, Wendy Barrie, Joey Adams, Kathy Banr, Sal Mineo, Hop* Hampton, Lisa Kirk, Sammy Kaye, Jean 8e berg, Robert Merrill, Zahra Norbo, and Arthur Fiedler. TicfeTabk Tides at the leaafert Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, April II 5:51 a.m. 12:04 a.m. 6:19 p.m. Wednesday, April 1? 6:35 a.m. 11:31 a.m. 6:56 p.m. 12:4i p.m. Thartday, April 17 7:15 a.m. V15 a.m. 7:34 p.m. 1:36 p.m. Friday, April U 7:52 a.m. 1:56 a.m. l.M p.m. __ 2:06 p.m. District Three Postmasters Will Meet at Biltmore Harold Webb, Chairman Of District, Plans Annual Meeting Postmasters and their wives in a nine-county area will attend the annual third district postmasters meeting at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel, More head City. Arrangements for the meeting have been made by Harold Webb. Morehead City postmaster and chairman of district three. One hundred postmasters and their wives are expected. Mayor George Dill, Morehead City, will give the address of welcome. The after dinner speaker will be Judge Luther Hamilton, Morehead City,, who represented the seventh sena torial district in the state senate in 1957. Attending the meeting will be James Martin, Liberty, state pres ident, and William T. McGoogan, Red Springs, state secretary-trea surer. Representing the United States postoffice department will be Ken neth Brown, Raleigh. Registration for the meeting will start at 5 and continue until 7. Of ficers will be elected. Mr. Webb expressed the hope that all 18 postmasters in Carteret County will attend. District three is comprised of Carteret, Craven, Pamlico, Onslow, Duplin, Jones, Pender, Wayne and Sampson Coun ties. Fishermen Can Get federal Aid The North Carolina Fisheries As sociation announces that there are relief funds available for fisher men who suffered heavy damage during the recent freeie of inland waters. Application to the Secretary of the Interior can be made for loans for financing and refinancing fish ing operations including fishing gear and vessels. This loan plan provides financial assistance for those who cannot obtain reason able assiatance elsewhere. Fishermen who wish to make application for loans under this plan can write the Bureau of Com mercial Fisheries, US Fiah and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, Washington. D. C. Loan form 3-1854 is the form the fishermen will have to fill out. 7-Year-Old Boy Struck by Car Vernon Fulcher, 7-yeir-oId son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Adair Fulcher, Harkers Island, was reported to be doing "very well" yesterday in the Morehead City Hospital. Vernon was struck by a car driven by Miss Christy Pigott, Straits, at about 7 p.m. Thursday on the Harkers Island Road. Miss Pigott is a sophomore at Smyrna High School. Both of Vernon's legs and hia left arm were broken. He was taken to Morehead City Hospital by Linwood Parker. The accident hap pened across from the Harkers Island REA office. Vernon's father, who had been fishing in Florida, returned home when notified of the accident. Little Trawlers Want Saturday Shrimping A proposal to prohibit the taking < of ihrimp on Saturday was pre sented by the North Carolina Fish eries Association at a public hear ing Saturday before the Board of Conservation knit Development commercial fisheries committee. The hearing was conducted at the commercial fisheries building, Camp Glenn. As soon as the meeting was called to order Roy Watson, pres ident of the association, took the floor. He introduced Fred Whita ker, executive secretary of the as sociation. Mr. Whitaker read a resolution requesting that shrimping in in land waters be closed from 8 a.m. Saturday until midnight Sunday. Present regulations call for mid night Saturday until midnight Sun day. Explanation Given As soon as the resolution was read Mr. Watson, explained the resolution. He said that it was de signed primarily as a conserva tion measure. Mr. Wataon said that shrimpers had better hauls Monday mornings after Sunday'a day of rest. He pointed out that with two days' rest Monday's shrimping should be even better. The original resolution called for closing the inland waters from midnight Friday until midnight Sunday. The association amended this to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday to make the job of law enforce ment officers easier, Mr. Watson claimed. Also speaking in favor of the proposal were Ollie Marine. R. J. Milvin, and Cyrus Lewis of Sneads Ferry. J. W. Taylor of Sea Level suggested that the rest period be gin at noon Friday and make it "long enough to do tome good." Small Operaton Object A number of small operators were at the meeting to apeak against the proposal. Charlie Gil ney of Myrtle Grove Sound near Wilmington said that he was rep resenting three or four hundred small boats in his area. Mr. Gainey said, "We need to shrimp six days a week. None of our boats can go outside in rough weather and we need every good day that comes along. Maybe the large trawlers do better on Mon days for the first one or two hauls, but the little boats do as well on Saturday as they do on Monday." Earl Oglesby, Newport RFD, backed up Gainey's statement that small shrimpers do as well on Sat urday as on any other day. Mr. Whitaker then took the floor and pointed out that shrimp are faat-growing creatures. "Shrimp can grow a lot in two days," he said. This two-day rest, according to him, would make North Caro lina shrimp larger and therefore more valuable. Ollie Cannon, Newport RFD, pointed out that shrimp often tra vel many miles in a day or two. "The fellows who have small boats have to catch them while they are there. We can't go 200 miles to catch shrimp that we could have caught at home two days before. "I rent my boat out on shares during the week and shrimp on Saturday to have something to eat," Mr. Cannon declared. Compromise Propoaed Gene Simmons, vice - chairman of the commercial fisheries com mittee, suggested that the rest period extend from Saturday mid night until Monday midnight. Mr. Whitaker said, "That would be flying in the face of tradition. Saturday has always been payday and 90 per cent of the shrimp fleet is tied up on Saturday anyway." Mr. Gainey came back with, "Maybe it's payday for the big See HEARING, Page 1 Morehead Draw Span Damaged As Boom Hits It The Morehead City drawbridge was being fixed yesterday after two days of one-way traffic over ? buckled draw leaf. The bridge was damaged at 1:50 p.m. Saturday when the boom of a crane passing through the draw swung around and knocked out three 10-inch stringers, each about 12 feet long. The tug. Captain King, S3 feet 3 inches long, was towing two barges north, one of which waa carrying the crane. When the boom of the crane caught on the atring The State Highway Department has closed the Morehead City Beaufort drawbridge to tincki weighing Id tons or more. This ban will be lifted as soon as re pairs are made. Cars and light trucks can continue to use the bridge. Repairs are expected to be completed late today. ers, the barge mi', 'ivered to get free and continued on its course without stopping to check on the damage. Bridge tender S. D. Weeks got the name and number of tbc tug and reported it to the Coast Guard. A check showed that the vessel is owned by the B. F. Diamond Con struction Co. Us port is listed as Savannah, Ga. Costs of the repair operation will be billed to that firm, according to John L. Humphrey, county roada superintendent. No estimate of the dsmage waa available yes terday. It waa thought at first that the bridge would have to be closed for two-hour periods yesterday to complete repairs. It wss decided later, however, that traffic could be maintained, with the intervals of closing shortened. Supervising repairs is John Ep person, New Bern, bridge foreman. Crusade Event Brings in $100 Approximately a hundred dollars was collected in the aale of red plaatic sword lapel pins Saturday in Beaufort and Morehead City. The sale was in conjunction with the cancer crusade. Collected in Morehead City was SCO.M and in Beaufort the unoffi cial estimate of collections is $30. Returns from the house-to-house canvass Sunday will be totaled this week. Mrs. Frank Sample, Cancer Crusade treasurer, reports the re turns from Atlantic Beach were *39. The total in the cancer crusade treasury yesterday morning was I1S4.11. Omitted from Friday's list of canvassers in the Cancer Crusade was the name of Miss Rachel Dud ley, Morehead City. The crusade will continue throughout this month. Forty per cent of the amount collected will remain in this county to help needy Cancer patients. Because teh num ber of patients is large, the Car teret Cancer Society has tentative ly set a limit of *23 as the amount of aid to each patient. If the crusade is successful, that amount probably can be raised, commented Miss Lyda Piner, can cer crusade chairman. Centennial Committee Will Give. Books for First 500 Donations The fir?t 500 people giving |1 donations to the Morehead City Centennial deficit will receive a chance on a color television set and a $2 Centennial aouvenlr book let. Member* of the Centennial steer ing committee decided on the bonus offer at a meeting Friday noon at the Sanitary Restaurant. The Centennial committee wound up *3,aoo in the bole after last summer's extravagansa. Thou sands of visitors and tourists came to town daring the big event but the free attractions drew most of the customers. Members of the steering com mittee, feeling that the debt was ? black mark against Morehead City, wtnt to work tome time >go < looking for a way to raiae money. They finally agreed to give away a $700 color television let to tome lucky perion who makea a $1 con tribution to help make up the defi cit. Other prizes will be an elec tric fry pan, a radio and fishing tackle. The drawing will be at the More bead City municipal building at 2 p.m., April 2S. Since each ticket stub will have the donor'a name on it, a person will not have to be present to win. Attending the meeting Friday were Charles Harkey, Dr. R. O. Barnum, Bernard Leary, Graver Munden, Henry White, Joe DuBois and Bob Seymour. Iv?y Merrill Arretted, Charged with Assault Ivey Merrill, J?, of Beaufort was arrested at t:30 a.m. Sunday, and charted with assault. Beaufort Po lice Chief Guy Springle said that Merrill and John Noe, 90, got in ? fight at Noe s Fish Co. Sunday morning. Merrill allegedly threw Noe off a two-foot platform onto the ground, breaking Noe's right hip. Chief Springle put Merrill in jail under ,|S00 bond. Noe was carried to the Morebead City Hospital for treatment. He will b? in Um hospital to several day*.
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