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THI3 IS NATIONAL RECREATION MONTH CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "? 47th YEAR. NO. 49. TWO SECTIONS FOURTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1968 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Court Awards Leslie Springle $2,200 in Suit for Damages Park Official Predicts Good Attendance Year Ray Pardue, superintendent of Fort Macon State Park, predicts that this year will be the best the park has ever seen. Since the first of January, at tendance has been running 25 to 30 per cent ahead of 1957. From Jan. 1 through June 15, 1857, attendance was 117,178. For the same period this year it is 181,556. Mr. Pardue attributes much of the increase to the fact that most of the weekends have been sunny. Weekly attendance is running in the neighborhood of 20,000. Hours the park is open are as follows: fort area (for fishing), 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; fort, 9 to 6; swim ming area, 9 to 6, picnic shelter, 8 to 8, and beach area (other than guarded beach), 8 to 8. Members of the staff, in addition to Mr. Pardue, are Phil Gray, per manent park ranger; Donald Chad wick, Smyrna, park historian; Reid Parrott, K i n s t o n, refreshment stand operator. A. E. Mercer, Bayboro, bath house operator; Jimmy Swindell, Oriental; Alex Umstead, Garner; Phillip Crawford, Kinston; and An dy McGlamery; Guilford College, lifeguards. Park attendants are Lauris Joy ner, Nashville, and Allen Autry, Beaufort. Mr. Pardue stated that the park staff appreciates the consideration being shown by the public in use of the park. Rules are being obeyed and persons seem to be making an effort to help keep the park clean. The park is located at the eastern tip of Bogue Banks and is reached by crossing the drawbridge be tween Morehead City and Atlantic Beach, then turning east on the Fort Macon Road. Red Cross Fund Totals $1,728 The Red Cross fund collected in the county during the past several months totals $1,728.18, announces Miss Gunhilde Gunnersen, cam paign chairman. Areas and the amounts they have contributed are as follows' Beau fort $580.38; Morehead City $546.64; Cherry Point and adjoining areas $302.86. Newport $30.50; causeway and Pivers Island $57; Gloucester $35; Cedar Island $17.81; Marshallberg $37.38; Markers Island $19; Willis ton $20.85; Davis $26, and Atlantic $54.77. Some money has been turned in for which there is no identifying notation as to its origin. If a so licitor has turned in money from an area, and it is not listed above, the solicitor should contact Miss Gunnersen, or Charles Willis at Hill's in Morehead City. Bank Directors Convene Here The board of directors of Com mercial National Bank of Kinston held its monthly luncheon meeting at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel Wednesday, followed by a dinner meeting that night at the Coral Bay Club. Attending were the directors of the home office, with members of the advisory boards of both More head City and Sea Level as guests. Leo H Harvey, president of the bank, reported to the directors that the activities of every department of the bank showed a substantial increase over the same period last year. Total assets increased ap proximately $1V4 million, and of the bank's total resources approxi mately 20 per cent is in cash, 48 per cent in loans, 30 per cent in bonds (of which more than TO per cent mature within five years) and ?nly 1 per cent in fixed assets. Mr. Harvey stated that deposits have increased more than one mil lion dollars, reserves have baen in creased by $300,000, and surplus and undivided profit by $TO, 000.00 during the past year. A semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent was declared to stockholders op record of June 20, to be pakl on j(nw 27. To Hire Mea Construction firms in charge of putting up new homes west of Cherry Point will be hiring work ers "on the site" in two or three weeks. The hiring office will be located west of Cherry Point about three mile* 100 yards off the high way. The entrance to the office is d ear Um railroad tracks. Settled in tuperior court this < week were two suits arising from an accident July 2, 1956. The acci dent at the time was described as "one of the worst accidents in county history". The court ruled in favor of Leslie D. Springle, plaintiff, in his action against Donnie Gillikin and C. T. Gillikin, administrator of the estate of Louis Elmer Gillikin. Louis Elmer Gillikin was killed in the wreck as was Charles Lewis. Both men were from Otway. Awarded S2.2M Springle was awarded $2,200 for damage to his truck, which was involved in the wreck, and the po tatoes it was hauling. Dismissed was an action against Springle, brought by members of the family of Louis Elmer Gillikin. They were seeking damages amounting to $50,000. The accident happened at about t p.m. Monday, July 2, west of the North River bridge. The three-ton Mack truck, hauling potatoes, col lided head-on with a 195B Ford which Louis Elmer was driving. In the car with him were Lewis, who was killed, and Donald Knutsen, Beaufort RFD, who survived. The driver of the truck, Vernell Sams, was not injured. Three mi grant laborers in the truck cab were hurt, but not seriously. The Ford was owned by Donnie Gillikin, brother of the driver. Other Cases Other cases settled in this week's civil court: In the suit, Roscoe Conway Sr. vs. Harvey Hughes Fillingame, Fillingame agreed to pay Conway $800. The suit arose from an acci dent Sept. 22, 1957 when Roscoe Conway Jr., on a bicycle, was struck by a car driven by Fillin game. The $800 is to be disbursed by the court to pay hospital expenses, nurses and doctor's bills. Fillin game was ordered to pay court costs. Action Dismissed An action by H. Earlc Mobley, requesting damages, was dismiss ed The suit was filed by Mobley against W. G. Gaither, W. G. Gaither Jr., Atlantic Discount Corp. and Coastal Corp. Mobley was ordered to pay costs. Non-suited was the cat it of E. J. High by Lucile High. exeeutrtk of the estate of R. J. High, deceased, vs. 3. T. Oglesby. The plaintiff was ordered to pay costs. Divorces Granted Divorces granted: C. S. Burhans vs. Mildred R. Burhans. Ann M. Walker vs. Fielding Lewis Walker III, Stanley Dixon vs. Ina Mae Dixon, Owen Guion Hill vs. Ger trude G. Hill, and Joseph Willis vs. Arlene Marie Greer Willis. In the last divorce action, Willis was ordered to pay $40 a month each for the support of his two minor children who are in custody of the mother. Willis was^lso or dered to pay $100 to the clerk to be paid to the attorney represent ing Mrs. Willis. Allan Louis Farland was award ed $8,000 damages as the result of injuries he sustained in an auto ac cident March 8, 1957 on Highway 17 north from Holly Ridge en route to Jacksonville. Farland was a passenger in a See COURT, Page 2 County Fire School To Begin Monday Beaufort, Morehead City and Newport fire departments are sponsoring again this year the an nual fire school. It will open Monday and con tinue through Friday. Sessions at present are scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Morehead City Fire Department. Capt Otis Dowdy, popular in structor from the Charlotte fire department, will again conduct the courses. Joe Fulcher, chief of the Mare head City Fire Department, says all firemen in the county are In vited to attend the fire school. 'Tourist' Finds Unwelcome Mat The summer season brings tour ists of all kinds to Morehead City. Raymond F. Hart of Johnson City, Tenn., found Monday that all the "tourists" are not welcome. Recorder's court judge Herbert Phillips found Hart guilty of va grancy and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. Judge Phillips told Hart that the sentence would not begin for 24 hours, which would give him plenty of time to get out of town. Four defendants were ordered to pay court costs. They were Na thaniel Williams, public drunken ness; Norris L. Freeman, public drunkenness and possession of a small quantity of non-taxpaid whis key; Luther Lawrence, drunk and disorderly; and Arnold Lee Baker, failure to yield the right of way. Florence D. Grimes, charged with driving without a license, brought her license to court and the state did not try her or Verbin L. Keller, who was charged with letting her drive his car. Cases against Harry Morris and Leon English were continued. Two Hold Office In State VFW Mrs. Cecil Peterson, Beaufort, was installed as president of the fourth district, VFW Auxiliary, at the recent state VFW convention at Durham. Ralph Whitley, Beaufort RFD, was installed as grand chaplain in the Military Order of the Cooties, the honorary group of the VFW. The Beaufort auxiliary, Post 2401, won stainless steel flatware for its community service priie. The following post and auxiliary members attended the meeting: Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dudley. Mr. and Mrs. Donny Gaskill, Mrs. Julia Basden, A1 Thomas, Mr. Whitley, all of Beaufort, and Ervin Lupton, Morehead City. Cdr. Sheppard ToTakeNewDuty Station in July Lt. Cdr. Arthur K. Sheppard, USCG, will relinquish command of the buoy tender Conifer to Lt. Ed ward Cassidy the first week in July. The Conifer is based at Fort Macon. Commander Sheppard, who has been skipper of the Conifer for the past two years, has been trans ferred to Milwaukee, Wis. There he will make inspection of mer chant vessel hulls. Mrs. Sheppard will join him September after their daughter, Romelda, enrolls in Woman's College, Greensboro. Commander Sheppard will sail his private boat, the 50-foot Su-Lu to his home at Key West, leaving Morehead City July 6. The com mander plans to retire to his Key West home next year. Commander Sheppard's Su-Lu made quite an impression on water parade viewers during the Centen nial celebration last year. A large papier mache figure of a Coast Guardsman towered up from the boat. The float bore the Coast Guard motto, Semper Paratus. It was one of the prize winners in the parade. Lieutenant Cassidy has arrived in Morehead City and went out Wednesday on one of the Conifer's routine trips. His former home was Quaker HiU, Conn. Commander Sheppard succeeded Lt. Cdr. James Van Etten, who was transferred to Washington, D. C., in July 1956. Witnesses Gather to Give Evidence on Closing Ann's Architects Meet in Morehead City h'tioto by Bob Seymour H. J. Stokard Jr., executive secretary of the NC chapter of the American Inntitnte of Architects, left, discusses the convention pro gram with vice-president Robert L. Ciemmer, Hickory, renter, and Cycrill H. Pfohl, Winston-Salem. The convention began yesterday and will end tomorrow at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel. Telephone Users Protesting Rate Hike Testify Yesterday Mayor Speaks To Rotarians A. B. Cooper, mayor of Atlantic Beach, was meat speaker at the Beaufort Rotary Club Tuesday night. The club met K the Scout building. Mr. Cooper wai the guest of the program chair man, the Rev. C. Edward Sharp. Mr Cooper made a plea for a county-wide chamber of commerce He mentioned the advantages of consolidation and said beach busi nesses were strongly in favor of such an organization. A great deal of interest was shown by the Rotarians in Mr. Cooper's porpoise project. He aaid there were four of the porpoises in his oceanarium now, all caught by Milton Santini and his wife. Mr. Cooper told about the aize and physical characteristics of the porpoise. He showed pictures of the oceanarium and told about the tricks he hoped to teach the por poises. A. W. Pridgen, former Atlantic High principal, and Reid Holmes of Winston-Salem were visitors at the meeting. Mayor Receives Portrait ThM|m GnemW, Ml. innllve vioc-pretMeat of the North Carol loa Merehaata AaooelaMea, pre seats More head Cttjr Mayar George MB aa all portrait a* ailk at a merchaata meth| at the Hotel Fort Macoa Friday. Tha portrait waa a fill fa tha mayor Ira* 0. N. AIM. ? Attorneys representing protesting ? factions in the Carolina Telephone rate case started putting their wit nesses on the stand yesterday in the hearing before the State Utili ties Commission, Raleigh. The hearing opened Tuesday. Carolina Telephone is requesting permission to hike rates $2.9 mil lion. Telephone users in 55 Eastern Carolina cities and towns and four tfouaty gorrrnme?t?fc*ve joined to protest the Increase, which would affect almost 154,000 phone cus tomers. The hearing was expected Wed nesday to continue into today. Attacked during sessions thus far this week was Carolina Telephone's contention that $73 million is a fair value to put on its plant invest ment. The attack was led by Sam uel Behrends Jr., attorney for the phone users objecting to rate in creases. If this base, on which percentage of return has been figured by the phone company, is reduced, it would automatically increase the percentage of return the company is receiving. CT&T contends it is making only 4.25 per cent return on its investment. The law allows a return of 6.75 per cent, for which the phone com pany is bidding. Mr. Behrends charged that the phone company has used an un realistic, inflated figure of capital investment on which they have fig ured their percentage of return. To combat the phone company's contention that it needs higher rates to assure investors a fair re turn on their money, Mr. Behrends pointed out that bond buyers were willing to take CT&T bonds at only 4.75 per cent interest as compared with American Tel and Tel which in the same year had to sell bonds at 5 per cent. Mr. Behrends also cited facts showing that the company has never had any difficulty selling stock. J. F. Haven*, financial witness for the phone company, testified Tuesday that CTfcT's net operating income for 1857 was $3,110,385. Based on a fair value of $73 million for its property, the company con tends this is a deficiency of $1,273, 850. It figures that $1,532,000 in in creases it put Into effect under bond last November will produce $652,252 more in net operating in come and that the $1.4 million more asked in a subsequent peti tion will bring in $591,004 more tor operating purposes. Thus the $2.9 million in rate in creases sought by CTliT would in crease its net operating Income by a toUl of $1,243,256. Tide Table TMei at the Beanfort Bar (Eastern Standard Time) HIGH LOW Friday, June 26 10:29 a.m. 4:21 a.m.. 10:S1 p.m. 4:19 p.m. Satarday, Jane 21 11:21 a.m. 8:01 a.m. 11:25 p.m. 5:09 p.m. Saaday. June 22 12:14 a.m. 5:45 a.m. 6:08 p.m. ' Monday, Jane 21 12:21 a.m. 6:41 a.m. 1:06 p.m. 7:17 pjfc Driver Cited For Drunkenness LeRoy M. Pickett, Durham, was charged with driving drunk and being on the wrong side of the road following a recent accident five miles east of Beaufort on highway 70. Pickett, driving a '1954 Cadillac coupe, owned by Jacob Bouknight, West Durham, collided with a 1958 Mercury station wagon driven by Gerald L. Fulcher Jr., route 1 Beaufort. The owner of the Cadil lac has been charged with per mitting a drunk person to drive. The Cadillac was headed west and the station wagon east. When he rounded a slight curve, Pickett got on the wrong side of the high way. Fulcher tried to avoid the collision but the left front ends of cach car met. Riding with Fulcher was Patricia Ann Fulcher, who was slightly shaken up. Damage to the station wagon was estimated at $500. Dam age to the Cadillac was estimated at $800. Patrolman J. W. Sykes investigated. Seat Catches Fire The front scat in C. N. Stroud's Buick caught fire in front of his house at 1609 Shackleford, More head City about 8 p.m. Monday. Firemen were called at 8:15 p.m. and had the fire out in a few min utes. There was no damage except to the seat. Firemen said they do not know how the fire may have started. Morehead City Auto Accident Injures Three Three persons were injured in a wreck at 29th and Evans Streets in Morehead City at 10:20 a.m. yes terday. Injured were Dr. George B. Ferguson, Durham, and Mrs. J. C. Harvell and James W. Kel logg, both of Morehead City. Mr. Kellogg, according to police, was driving Mrs. HarveH's 1954 Chevrolet east on Evans Street. He started to make a left turn on 29th Street just as he met Dr. Fergu son in a 1955 Mercury station wa gon. Police Chief Herbert Griffin said : that Mr. Kellogg told him he didn't see the Mercury. The left front fenders of the two vehicles crashed, causing about $400 dam age to each. The damage was cov ered by insurance. Mrs. Harvell and Dr. Ferguson were carried to the Morehead City hospital for treatment. Mr. Kellogg was taken to Dr. S. W. Thompson's office. Mrs. Harvell had a bump on her forehead and bruises on her right elbow and left knee. Mr. Kellogg had lacerations on his upper lip and favored his left knee. He was also suffering from shock. Both of Dr. Ferguson's knees were cut just under the knee caps. Chief Griffin said the accident was "unavoidable." He said,- "Mr. Kellogg is an elderly man and he was sitting in a seat that was too low for him to have unobstructed vision. There were no arrests or charges." Boat Capsizes, All are Saved Marine Maj. M. E. McNiel, Morehead Bluffs, his wife and three children took an unexpected swim at 9:35 a.m. yesterday. A wave caught their 14-foot outboard motorboat and capsized it near Shackleford Banks in Beaufort In let. A lookout in the Fort Macon Coast Guard station tower spotted the accident and sent a Coast Guard boat to the rescue. By the time the Coast Guardsmen got to the scene other boats in the vicin ity had picked up the drenched McNeils, all of whom had on life preservers. The Coast Guard towed the mo torboat to Fort Macon where it will be kept until Major McNiel calls for it. Senator Requests Funds To Deepen Morehead Port Sen. B. Everett Jordan yesterday asked Congress to appropriate over a million dollars for the deepening of the Morehead City port channel. Jordan asked for construction funds after both the Senate and House approved the Morehead City project as part of a $1.3 billion rivers and harbors bill. The amount sought for the More head City work is $1,197,000. An army of witnesses con gregated in the courthouse at Beaufort yesterday to give testimony in the hearing be fore Judge Joseph W. Par ker relative to the closing of Ann's Drive-In. Residents of the Wildwood section, in which Ann's is located, em ployed Judge Luther Hamil ton, Morehead City attorney, to assist Robert Rouse Jr., so licitor, in showing why Ann's should be permanently closed. At 5:10 yesterday court recess ed until this morning. Mr. Whcat ly started to put the first of his 18 witnesses on the stand late in the afternoon. If Judge Parker upholds the in junction signed last week by Judge W. J. Bundy, the defendant, Ann Avery Sykes, operator of the place, has the privilege of appearing at the November term of court and presenting the case before a jury. The injunction signed by Judge Bundy closes the drive-in only for a maximum of 20 days. The in junction was served last Saturday by Deputy Bobby Bell. The hearing was scheduled to start at 10 a.m. yesterday, was deferred until noon and finally got under way at 2:30. The delay was partially due to the attorneys and judge not being sure whether the case should be heard before a jury in this term of court or November. It was finally decided that Judge Parker would hear the evidence, with the jury hearing in November, should the judge rule in favor of closing the place. Witnesses Called The first witness was Emanuel Ross, Wildwood. Mr. Ross, who ?aid he lives about three-tenths of a mile from Ann's, testified that he saw men and women going in and out of a trailer in back of Ann's one morning. lie said that he was also disturbed by noise from a jukebox. The place, he said, "does not have a v*ry good name". Under crostf-afcamination, Claud Wheatly, attorney for Mrs. Sykes, suggested that the jukebox noise may have come from the Airport Grill, which until it burned recently, was lo cated next to Ann's. Mrs. Emmanuel Ross, the next witness, said Ann's was "not very reputable". Sgt. Paul Bray, of the military police, said that he had been called to Ann's about 12 times in the last two years. He said the place was put off limits to military personnel 18 hours after a Marine was shot there March 12. Sergeant Testifies He also stated that on one oc casion when he was there that if the persons in the place had not been civilians, he would have taken them in for public drunken ness. He said Ann's had a reputa tion as "not a very good place" and that a trailer behind Ann's had the repution of being used as a place of prostitution. Under cross-examination, Ser geant Bray said that the reputa tion for prostitution had arisen only after the shooting. Bernie O. Ketner, who livei across the highway from Ann's said that he has heard nothing disreputable about the place since March IS. He cited two specific occasions on which there were fights at See HEARING, Page 7 County Chairman Asks Cooperation Of All in 'Pest-Kill and Clean-ilD Moses Howard, chairman of the county board of commissioners, calls upon all residents of the coun ty to take active part in Peat-Kill and Clean-Up Week next week, June 23 through Saturday, June 28. Mr. Howard particularly aaka citizens to keep weeda and graai cut low so that mosquitoes won't have hiding places. Keeping down weeda alao improves the appear ance of property and makes the county inviting to the thousands of summer visitors. The biggest flood of these visitor* will be here in just two weeks, the Fourth of July weekend. Hie chairman of the county .board further asks cooperation of individuals in either getting rid of stagnant poals of water or putting oil-soaked sawdust bags in stagnant ponds. This prevents mosquitoes from breeding there. He commended the communi ties which have undertaken their own mosquito control programs, as well aa the towna which have start ed their fogging operations. But he emphasized that each family, do ing its own small part in mosquito control, can be a moat effective means of getting rid of the pests. At tor clean-up, "weeds, trash, nokempt hullrttngi tad yards are Mom C. Hmrf . . . read* proclamaUoa not pleasant to look at," the count] chairman continued. "V we warn our summer visitors to re tun again and again, we must preset) an attractive appearance as wel ? ? > hn.nit.liU .ttltn/W " ' Saspeads Urease ' The state driver license division > has suspended the license at Joel t D. Bell, Uorchcsd City. Bell wai 1 convicted of driving drunk in Vir ginia.
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