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THIS IS DAIRY MONTH CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR, NO. 44. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1958 PUBLISHED TUB8DAY8 AND FRIDAYS County Democrats Vote in Primary District Gives Judge Biggest Vote in Saturday's Primary Lather Hamilton . . . returned to senate County Commissioners Work on New Budget County commissioners debated moqt of the day yesterday over the budget for 1958 59. The budget, as temporarily drawn up by the audi tor* shows an increase of $48,488 over 1957-58, and an excess of ex peases over income of 178,000. Of the increase, $2,635 is in the general fund, and the remainder in tie health, welfare and school budgets. The new budget is based on a county assessed valuation of $39 Mi million, up a million over last year. Must Use Surplus The only way that the county can operate under the new budget is to use surplus left over this year, James D. Potter, auditor, told the commissioners. "If tax collections hold up," the auditor commented, "we might get by, but we're going to have to get some more money for next year and it looks as though you're going to have to increase taxes." The total estimated budget for the coming year is $713,376 as com pared with $664,058.59 for 1(57-58. Faced with demands for new schools and increased fund re quests from almost every depart ment annually, the commissioners discussed means of getting more money. James Potter, auditor, said that Scientists Lose Two Radio Buoys Two telemetering buoys, being, used here to determine drift of ocean currents, cannot be located by scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who placed the buoys offshore recently. The buoys are radio-equipped. It is believed that the buoys have either been washed ashore, or their radios 'have gone dead. Fishermen or any other boat men who spot a buoy afloat are asked to note the location and phone it to the Fish and Wildlife lab, 9-3491, Beaufort. If ? buoy is found ashore, the flader la asked to notify the lab. A reward will be given the finder. The buoys resemble a spar buoy. Each is 20 feet long, cylindrical, ( inches in diameter with a 15 foot whip antenna. Each weighs 250 pounds. They are painted orange, and have a PI series code aamber, alto the words, "Woods Hole Oceanographic Inatitute" let tared on them. The two missing buoys (more than two were set adrift) have not been heard from for a weak. They were put overboard between 30 and 40 miles off the Carteret coast. Each buoy ii valued at $1,500. the board has two alternative!. Which is best? 1. Get the county out of debt in 10 years with a reasonable tax rate (this means a slightly increased rate to meet all the demands for mo.-e money). 2. Or have a county with a bond ed indebtedness of t3 million, which is what the debt will be if the present debt is refinanced and an additional $2 million borrowed for schools. The Local Government Commis sion doubts if the county can bor row as much as $3 million. One million may be the limit. Mr. Potter commented that the county can get out of debt in three years if no schoul j are built dur ing that time and no other in creases allowed. It was suggested that perhaps $200,000 a year be See BOARD, Page 2 Judge Luther Hamilton was as sured a seat in the state senate by a sound majority in Saturday's primary. Unofficial returns indi cate that the district's other sen ator will be James O. Simpkins, New Bern. Others running for the office were Clyde Sabiston, Jacksonville, and John Koltam, Kinston. Car teret County went for Hamilton and Sabiston. Judge Hamilton, who served as a senator from this district in 1957, said yesterday, "I am very grate ful to the people of the county for the magnificent vote." The senator was referring to the majority he received. He express ed much displeasure, however, with the number of persons who went to the polls, especially in Morehcad City. Total Registered Morohead City has between 3,500 and 3,600 voters registered and less than a fourth of them went to the polls. Judge Hamilton pointed to Beau fort's vote, where the registration is less than in Morehead City, yet the number voting there was equal to the total vote in Morehead. "I particularly appreciate what ^Beaufort did," Judge Hamilton commented. Beaufort gave him a -vote of 727. The percentage of persons in the county going to the polls was much better than the percentage in More head City's two precincts. Judge Hamilton, according to un official returns, polled more than 12,500 votes in the six counties of Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir and Onslow. His majority vote was between 3,300 and 3,400. No Campaign "I think this is particularly grati fying in that 1 did no campaign ing," the judge said. He gave two reasons for not campaigning: "I was too busy and felt I couldn't afford the time, and most of the people knew me for better or worse anyhow." The judge points out that Mr. .Simpkins, or whoever serves with the judge in the Senate, will have to have a majority of the total vote. In other words, he would have to have at least 9,501 votes. Late figures yesterday showed that Simpkins had polled 9,727 votes to Sabiston's 9,458, with most precincts having reported. Simp kins had the majority needed to give him a seat in the senate, whereas Sabiston did not. Tbe oenator concluded, "I want the people of the county to know that 1 am grateful for the confi dence they have shown me by their overwhelming vote." i In addition to serving in the sen ate in 1957, Judge Hamilton served as senator from this district in 1B21 and was in the house of repre sentatives in 1931 and 1933. He served many years as a superior court judge. Photo by Bob Seymour Saturday was a busy day in the courthousr , Beaufort, where voters went to cant their ballots in the Democratic primary. Working at the registration table, left to right, are Mrs. Elma Robinson. Mrs. Ben Robinson, Mrs. Robert McLaren, Mrs. Lucy Whitehnrst. Mrs. Irene Whitehurst and Miss Rebecca Robinson. Partially obscured at right Is V. E. Swan i of the County Elections Board. Doctors Confer with County Board On Getting More Money for Hospital Dairy Princess To be Selected The county dairy princess wU! be named tonight in a- contest at the Rex Restaurant. Five girls have been entered in the contest set for 7:30 p.m. Candidates for the title are Douglass Ann West, sponsored by the Morehead City Jaycees; Mary Lou Temple, sponsored by the Beaufort Jaycecs; Peggy Jo Wal lace, sponsored by the Newport Rotary Club, Nancy Mason, spon sored by the Beaufort Rotary Club and Nancy Broda, sponsored by the county home demonstration council. Judges for the contest will be Sheriff Hugh Salter, Beaufort Mayor C. T. Lewis, Dick Parker, Roy T. Garner and Miss Ruth Peeling, editor of THE NEWS TIMES. The candidates were coached by Mrs. Patricia Moore Wilkinson of New Bern. Mrs. Wilkinson la a former model. ? At 3:30 p.m. yesterday county commissioners were trying to fig ure out bow to get blood out of a turnip. Literally, they were trying tu find a way, with doctors of the county, to pay bill a of welfare patients treated at Morehead City Hospital. flcials told the doctors la I officials that there I* The following ways were suggest ed to get the money: 1. Skinner Chalk, county commis sioner. Cut out federal assist ance for several months and give the "county money" that would have matched it to the hospital 2. Dr. L. W. Moore: Have towns that have ABC stores give their ABC money for support of the hospital as does More head City 3. Dr. B F. Royal: Use ABC funds from other towns or levy a county tax to support the hospital. Dr. Moore also suggested that the price of whiskey be raised. All suggestions, with the excep tion, probably, of the first on cut ting out federal assistance would require an act of the legislature. John Crump, hospital trustee, said the hospital couldn't wait un Boys Scouts Camp at Calico Creek 1 1 Ten Bay Scoot troopi of the Tnuitra CoacH ??H ? Ac north ihart o? Cnlko Crwk FrMay throat* Saarfiy. The ScoaU aad Owtr leader*, IN (treat, pKtfced their teat* Mar Ike reaMeace el Dr. 8. W. Hatcher. The north thore of Calico Creek near the Dr. 8. W. Hatcher home wai dotted with Soy Scout tents Friday through Sunday afternoon. The Scout* were from the Tua carora Council. The trip waa an gineerea oy james u. listener. Scoutmaster of the lit. Olive troop. The Scout* spent ? good part of their time oo Bogue Banks. They toured Fort Macon and the Coast Guard station; they visited ? fishing pier; and took in the tight* it Atlantic Beach. A. B. Cooper give all the Scouts free rides and golf games and ad mitted them free to his new sound beach pool. On Friday night many of the Scout* visited the Teeo-Age Club at the recreation building, t I Dr. Hatcher reported that all the Scouts declared they had never enjoyed a better camp. Scout lead en aatd they were gratefOl to the businessmen who helped make the camp ? big success to the boys. til next spring {or money. He wanted to know what the county could do immediately. The county commissioners had no answer at that point, other than the fact that there wai no money. Commissioner Odell Merrill ex plained that the board is thinking of raising next year the taxes allo cated to welfare, S cents to handle increased expenses of the welfare department, and an additional 5 cents that would be earmarked specifically for the hospital. This would make the total levy for wel fare 30 cents. lie pointed out that the board of education is also requesting >2 Mi million for schools, which if bor rowed, would call for a tax in crease. Commissioner Chalk said that the taxes for this year have been set at SI. 35, with no increase. Dr. John Way told the board that the doctors are concerned about the hospital situation, because, should the hospital have to close, the doctors would have no place to send their patients. Set up in the welfare budget for 1958-59 is 17,000 for welfare pa tients. This will not cover the hos pital costs for treating the patients. The doctors treat charity patients free. Dr. Morris and several other doc tors pointed out that the hospital is overcrowded now. He said, "We have to build a new hospital." Moses Howard, chairman of the county board, asked Miss Georgie Hughes, welfare superintendent, if she had any suggestion for obtain ing more money for the hospital. Miss Hughes said that it has been suggested that the state assume more of the burden of welfare costs, thus releasing some of the county funds for other needs. Attending this session, in addi tion to county officials and others mentioned above, were Dr. M. T. Lewis, Mayor George Dill, Dr. .lohn Gainey, David Willis, hos pital administrator, Dr. S. W Hatcher, and Mrs. C. G. Holland, head of the welfare board. Prior to the meeting, which started at 4, the board requested that the county attorney write the attorney general for a ruling as to the authority the county has to list land on which buildings are located and where tenants of the buildings claim they do not own the land, and will accept no deed from the land. They also authorized that the commanding general at Cherry Point be contacted relative to civil aervice employees' failing to pay local taxes. A map of additional paving around the courthouse was present ed. The map ia to be shown to R. Markham, division engineer, in the hope that the paving can be done when the new highway ia paved. The board accepted the report of B. 0. Moore, tax collector, on aet tlement of taxes for 1957 and au thorized him to proceed with col lection of 1958 taxea. The state highway safety com mission haa revoked the license of Travia W. Moore, Morehead City. Moore's license waa taken after he ?u convicted of driving drunk. Voters Put New Coroner, Commissioner in Office An unofficial tabulation of the first 22 precincts to re port, the results of the Democratic primary was released yesterday afternoon by Sheriff Hugh Salter. The election was conducted Saturday afternoon. More than 3,000 bal lots were counted in the first 22 precincts. Thero were contests for three county offices: county commissioner, judge of county re-< corder's court and coroner. Top vote getter was Moses Howard of Newport, chairman of the county commissioners, with 2,853 votes. The other commissioners winning seats were David E. Yeomans, Markers Island, 2,576, Harrell C. Taylor, Sea Level, 2,763, Odell Mer rill, Beaufort, 2,765, and S. A. Chalk Jr., Morehead City, 2,755. Tommie Lewis of Harkers Island got 1,639 in his bid for a seat on the hoard. Mr. Yeomans and Mr. Lewis filed for county commissioner after the incumbent from Harkers Island, Walter veoman*. ?Hat he would not run for reelection, me oiuor lour commissioners were successful in their bids for reelec tion. Incumbent Lambert Morris of At lantic held a decided edge over Beaufort attorney Gene Smith in the race for judge of recorder's court. Judge Morris polled 2,275 votes to 1,034 for Mr .Smith. W. David Munden, Morehead i City, defeated incumbent L. D. Springle in the race for county coroner. Mr. Sprjigle had served for seven years. In the 22 precincts reporting, Mr. Munden held a 2,063 1.294 lead in the race. Precincts not included in the tabulation are Stella, Stacy, Har lowe, Cedar Point and Boguc. In the only township race, George Smith was re-elected con stable over Lonnie L. Hyatt. Pre cincts in Morehead township are Wild wood, Broad Creek, Salter Path, and Morehead No. 1 and No. 2. Final and official tabulation of the county primary election results will appear in Friday'* edition of THE NEWS-TIMES. Air Service Starts Sunday Piedmont Airline* started its summer service to Beaufort-More head airport Sunday. The plane will arrive daily at 5:13 p.m. and leave at 5:55 p.m. for the return trip west Piedmont fliea a DC 3 Into thia airport. J. W. Dean, who was in charge of the Piedmont office last year, is back again this summer. Air service is expected to continue until Labor Day or later. Mail that is to go out on the plane must be in the Beaufort postoffice by 4:45 p.m. and in the Morehead City postoffice by 4:30 p.m. Chamber Official Speaks to Lions Joe DuBois, manager of the Morehead City Chamber of Com merce was guest speaker at the Lions Club meeting at the Hotel Fort Macon Thursday night. He was the guest of program chair man Frank Moran. Mr. DuBois brought a display of all the mail his office had re ceived during the past six months. He discussed some of the Jobs done in the chamber office and said the chamber was taking an important part in the growth of Morehead City. Secretary David Munden presid ed at the meeting in the absence of president J. B. Eubanks, who was sick. Club members voted to give aa much as $50 to pay for the needs of a blind person who requested aid from the Lions. Lee Edwards. Kinstoa Lion, at tended as a visitor. Tides at the Beaafort Bar (Eastern Standard Time) Tide Table HIGH LOW Tuesday, Juse l 9:22 a.m. 9:31 p.m. 3:11 a.m. 3:24 p.m. Wednesday, Jise 4 10:17 a.m. 10:30 p.m. 4:40 a.m. 4:10 p.m. Tkarsday, lane 5 11:11 a.m. 11:22 p.m. 4:50 a.m. 4:58 p.m. Friday, Jane ? 12:0* a.m. 5:36 a.m. S:4S p.m. Gillikin Boat Works Bums Early Saturday Business Employed 28 Men on Harkers Island; Loss Heavy James Gillikin, Harkers Island, has begun making plana Id rebuild Gillikin boatworka which burned early Saturday morning. The loss was partially covered by insurance and Mr Gillikin told some of hia friends that he will rebuild as soon as he can get his insurance straight. The biggest single loss in the building was a 65 fool hcadboat that was to have been launched Saturday morning. The boat waa completely equipped with the best materials available. She had two dieael engines installed and ready to go. Mr. Gillikin was not available yesterday for comment, but esti mates on the value of the boat ran from SMI ,000 to $70,000. One other boat was also scheduled for launch ing Saturday morning. According to David E. Yeomans, Harkers Island, the other boal was about 2S feet long. Four other boats were in various stages of completion in the building. Two of them were ocean-going trawlers about SO feet long, one a 30-foot pleasure boat and one waa a 15 foot runabout being built for Sheriff Hugh Salter. Fishermen at Shell Point saw the fire about 2:30 a.m. Saturday and reported it to Marshallberg. By the time the Marshallberg truck got to the boatworks, the building was burning out of control. The firemen did manage to save the railways in front of the build ing and a number of boats that had been pulled up for repairs. The building itself was about 200 feet long and 100 feet wide. Mr. Gillikin had been sole owner of the business since the death o! his brother about two years ago. He employed 28 Harkers Island men in the boatworks. "It was the largest industry on the island and all of ua are really auxloua to aee Mr. Gillikin get it back in opera tion," Mr. Yeomans sjid. Two Receive Scholarships G. H. Ferguson, director, Di vision of Negro Education, State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, in a letter to H. L. Jos lyn, county school superintendent, has honored Carteret by selecting two of ita Negro educators for scholarships at the Tuskegee Work shop for Principals and Super visors June 23 to Aug. S. The Southern Education Founda tion made four of these scholar ships available in North Carolina, and Carteret profits by receiving two for a supervisor pnncipsl team to study local problems, Mr. Jos lyn commented. L. R. Johnson, principal of the Queen Street School. Beaufort, and Mrs. Liller C. Hanklns. supervisor of Negro Education in the Carteret Onslow County Schools, acting aa a team, will make the study of prob lems pertaining to local schools. Each scholarship will include. 1. Transport ation on the basis of round-trip railroad coach fare from the participant's home to Tuskegee. 2. Room and meals on the basis of charges regularly made summer school students by Tuskegee. Par ticipants however, may by ar rangement with Dean Hunter, plan to live and to have their meala off the campus, though they will ba reimbursed only to the extent of regular charges at Tuskegee, and 3. Registration, tuition, and other feea on the regular rate at Tuske gee Eaters laatM BUI Munden, Morehead City, competed in the district Jaycee sponsored teen-age read-v-0 at New Bern Saturday and Sunday. He qualified for the district event by winning the Morehead City ro?d-e-o.
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