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Today it Dominion Day, National Holiday In CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR, NO. 52. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS )Boy Drowns, Woman Saved at Beach Sunday Photo by J. W. Sykes Grim hopelessness it shown in faces of Atlantic Beach life guards as they try in Vain to revive Lon nie Ayets, 17, lying with blanket over him. Two Banks Will Take Holiday Morefcead City Banks will take a two-day holiday over the July FourtH weekend. They will be cloaed Friday, the Fourth, and Saturday. First-Citi zens in Morehead City will be open from 9 a.m. to S p.m. Thurs day, the day before the Fourth. Commercial bank will observe its usual 9 to 2 hours. The banks at Newport and Beau fort will be closed Friday, but open Saturday. The Commercial bank at Sea Level will close at 1 p.m. Thursday and reopen Mon day. Postoffices and all other federal offices, as well as state, will be closed as will ABC stores. The courthouse, Beaufort, and town balls will be closed. Air mail and other mails will be dispatched from postoffices as usual. It is not known what stores will be open. Some are expected to close. a 17 - year - old youtn, Lonme Ayers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ayers, Bethel, was drowned at 1 p.m. Sunday in waters off Atlantic Beach and another near-drowning victim was saved later in the afternoon. Saved waft Mr*. Marvin Kuqbuae. ef liaveiock. Ayers was on a raft that cap sized about 150 yards from shore 'outside the ropcd-off swimming area. With him was Carlton Kell, 21, of route 3 Bethel. Kell told Bill Moore, beach po lice chief that a wave overturned the raft and dumped them both in the water. Kell said he saw Ayers strug gling and grabbed him but had to turn him loose in order to save himself before becoming exhaust ed. Lifeguards recovered A y e r s' body about 15 minutes later, but efforts to revive him failed. Mrs. Ruebuse was pulled from the water about 4 p.m. She was swimming with her husband, a Ma rine staff sergeant, when she be came exhausted. Sergeant Ruebuse held -on to her until help arrived. Both had been swimming beyond the life ropes. When life guards took her from the surf, she was unconscious. She was revived, after a long tunc, with the Atlantic Beach resusci tator. When the oxygen supply was ex hausted, another tank was borrow ed from the Fort Macon Coast Guard station. ^Mayor A. B. Cooper. Atlantic Beach, said that Mrs. Ruebuae's pulse was very faint when she was The resnscitator used to re vive Mm. Marvin E. Rucbuse was bought with funds donated in li56 by readers of THE NEWS-TIMES. The Town of At lantic Beach keeps the resusci tator supplied with oxygen and trains lifeguards in its use. rescucd. He commended the life guards for their excellent job in saving her. He added, "Everybody is a life guard at the beach, if they would only realize it. People should swim in pairs and look out for the other fellow. If they do that, then we can usually get help to them in time if they are in trouble." Strong northeast winds and swift tides made the water unusually rough Sunday. The funeral for Ayers is sched uled for this afternoon at Bethel. Report Given On Box Request For Postoffice The Postoffice Department has approved additional lockboxes for the Morehead City postoffice, but it has yet to request their installa tion. That is the latest word in the long quest for more boxes. It was forwarded last week to J. A. Du Bois, Morehead City Chamber of Commerce manager, by Congress man Graham A. Barden. Mr. DuBois contacted the con gressman. who in turn queried Franklin Foete, administrator, General Services Administration. The GSA acts on requests made by th postoffice department. Harold Webb, postmaster, re ports that 150 additional lockboxes are nerded. He said that he would again request the Postoffice De partment to get the boxes installed. The postoffice now has 409. The additional boxes were re quested as long as seven or eight years aco. The Postoffice Department has requested installation of air con ditioning in the postoffice. Mr. Webb says he can't explain why that expenditure has been ap proved but not expenditure for the lockboxes. The excuse always given at Washington is that there is such a backlog of requests for boxes in postoffices throughout the nation that there has never been enough money in a fiscal year to meet the Morehead City request. Mr. Flocte says that when the Postoffice Department asks the General Services Administration to put the additional boxes in, "we will program the work, if suffi cient funds arc available, and in stall the equipment." Cars Collide 1 In Beaufort Three cars collided at Ann and Queen Streets, Beaufort, at 12:10 p.m. Friday. One of the cars, a 1951 Chevrolet driven by Clarence Roiiera of Beaufort, turned over on the. sidewalk against a tree in front William Skarren residence. Also involved in the accident were Mrs. Ruby H. Adams, New ton, Ohio, driving a 1956 Pontiac, and Russell G. Manson, Beaufort, driving another Chevrolet. No one was injured. Witnesses say that Mr. Rogers was driving cast on Ann Street and Mrs. Adams was driving west. Mr. Manson pulled out of Queen Street going north. The front end of Mr. Manson's car hit Mr. Rogers' car in the right front fender, knocking it in the path of Mrs. Adams' car. When those two cars collided, Mr. Rog ers' car tipped over and came to rest on its side against a tree. Police chief Guy Springle inves tigated the accident but made no arrests or charges. lie said he was leaving the case "open." Mr. Man son drove his car from the scene of the accident but the other cars were towed away by a wrecker from Paul Motor Co. There was no report on the estimated damage to the vehicles. Three Hurt Seriously in Head-On Crash TkU li Uw front W.tfcellWl OMiautUic In which the Carlisle* and Janowlci were riding. / TMa h the front of the ltS7 Bokk Graham Davis was 4rhia(. Be was alone in the car. (Photos by CapL Carl Baach) cite Uiit H" Rained-Phones Pffft! Carolina Telephone and Tele graph officials at Tarboro laugh heartily when told that a hard rain here puts the phones out of com mission. In Friday's downpour, few people would get the right numbers when they dialed; people calling the newspaper office had to dial the operator and get her to dial 6-4175. The sun finally cor rected what the phone company can't. With good weather, Bogue Banks beachea are expected to have rec ord-bretking crowds o v ? r the ; Three persons were seriously in lured in t bead-on collision at 6:55 a.m. yesterday at Bettie. Injured are Graham Davis, <5, Straits, who has a broken jaw, col larbone, nose and numerous bruises; Walter Carlisle Jr., 33, and his brother, Norman Carlisle, both oi Kinston. Walter was in a semi-conscious state yesterday afternoon, suffering from fractured ribs and a severe brain concus sion. Norman suffered a broken leg. Francis Janowici, 30, Allen Park, Mich., who was riding with the Carl isles, was treated at the More head City Hospital and discharged. The others were admitted. They war* takes to the hospital by Dill ? ? and Adair ambulances. Patrolman W. J. Smith said that Davis, in a 1957 Buick, was headed toward Beaufort and the other ear, a 1951 Oldsmobile, was going east. The patrolman said that the Buick was behind, two cars which had slowed, one of which was evident ly going to stop to pick up some passengers. The Buick cut out from behind the slow cars to pass them and collided head-on with the car com ing from the other direction. The front ends of both cars were locked together. The accident happened aeven miles east of Beaufort on Highway TO. Both ears were demolished. Charge* ire pending Defendant Posts $3,000 Bond in Molesting Case Miss Beaufort Crowned Jean Chadwlck, Miss Beaufort of 1957, erowns ber successor, Winki Willis. Miss Beaufort was crowned at Cape Lookout aboard the Carolina Queen Saturday night. The Beaufort Jaycees sponsored the cruise to raise money to send Miss Willis to the state beauty p? m?*t week. Photos by Bob Seymour ' Sheriff Hugh Salter gets a hundred dollar kiss from Whiki Willis, Miss Beaufort. Sheriff Salter gave Miss Willis a check for $100 and < a bouquet of roses when she was crowned Miss Beaufort. ? 1 Pastoral Assignments Made ; At Methodist Conference C. M. Bridges Held for Theft C. M. (Sonny) Bridges, 25, has posted $500 bond for his appear ance in county court on a charge of car theft. Bridges was appre hended by Carlton Garner, assist ant police chief, Beaufort, Sunday at a house in the 500 block of Pol lock Street. Officer Garner said that the car. a black Cadillac, was owned by Mrs. Margie George, who had lent it to her brother, Melvin Brown, a crewman aboard the Mispillion. Brown said the car, with Penn sylvania license tags, was stolen at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Bridges al legedly parked the car where he was staying and someone told Brown where it was. He went and got it, then informed the police that Bridges had taken it and told the police where Bridges could be found. With Officer Garner at the time of the arrest was W. E. Pickard, highway patrolman. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar (Eastern Standard Time) HIGH LOW Tuesday, July 1 8:13 a.m. 2:12 a.m. 8:30 p.m. 2:19 p.m. Wednesday, July 2 9:02 a.m. 2:59 a.m. 9:17 p.m. 3:05 p.m. Thanday, July 1 9:53 a.m. 3:42 a.m. 10:04 p.m. 3:50 p.m. Friday, July 4 10:43 a.m. 4:24 a.m. 10:50 p.m. 4:34 p.m. - At the Methodist Conference last week at Wilson, Bishop Paul N. Garber of the Richmond area an nounced pastoral appointments. For Carteret County, they are as follows: Atlantic, ,D. M. Lewis; Ann Street Church, Beaufort, J. M. Cline; Beaufort circuit, J. E. Smith. Camp Glenn-Broad Creek, V. N. Moore; Harlowe-Oak Grove. J. G. I. upton; Marshallberg, W. M. Jef fries; First Methodist. Morehead City, J. K Herbert; Franklin Me morial, Morehead City, S. S. Moore. Newport, R. L. Fleming Jr.; Sal ter Path, J. H. Bryant; Stacy-Sea Level, W. R. Hale; Straits-llarkers . Island, J. K Mahoney; Williston- | Smyrna. D. M. Tyson. Reassigned to Ocracoke was W. I W. Clarke Jr. The Rev, Lpuie I -ewis, who was | at Atlantic, has been assigned to Aurora. The Rev. Robert Poulk, formerly pastor on the Beaufort < Methodist cirriiil, has been assign- i ed to Salem, f church near Golds- 3 boro. The Rev. H. E. Gibat, for- t mrr pastor at Straits - llarkers Island, has moved to Greensboro ? where he will be employed in a t plant which prints religious publi- ! cations. < The Rev. Jesse T. Fisher, for- t merlv at Salter Path, has been as- I signed to Stonewall. I Bridge Closed Saturday [ For Emergency Repairs The Morehead City - Beaufort drawbridge across Newport River was closed from 9 a.m. to ( p.m. Saturday for emergency repairs. Trouble with the bridge wit noted late Friday. Repairs had to i be made to an axle and gears. After a gear was in and it was be- t lieved the bridge was ready to c operate, it was found out that the r gear was installed wrong. It had i to be removed and replaced cor- 1 roctljr. i Phone Fight Committee Issues Hearing Report The East Carolina Phone Fight Committee, which opposes the iele 3hone rate hikes requested by Jarolina Telephone and Telegraph. ias issued to contributors to the "ight, the following report: Our executive committee, Mayors George B. Herndon, John D. Wilson, Milton Strickland, City Manager Leonard P. Bloxam and [ vish to make the following report )f our hearing before the North .'arolina Utilities Commission on tune 17 through June 20: The committee is in general igreement that our attorney. Mr. Samuel Behrends Jr., had the best prepared case we have ever heard ?nd also, that our expert witness. Mr. Paul Howell, was the most competent and best informed wit less we have ever heard. We noted hat our case was presented in the /cry best imanncr. Likewise. Carolina Telephone and relegraph jCo. had a well prepared ind well presented case. We feel hat we did a lot of good, because Mr. Behrends and Mr. Howell had nformed themselves of the law ind facts in the case, to such a ligh degree that they were able to nake an excellent presentation to he commission. The Utilities Commission has vide latitude in the enforcement >f our North Carolina Statute gov ?rning public utilities. They gave is a fair hearing but we would not ittempt to guess what their de rision will be. as noon as tne transcript 01 ine learlngs is completed, the attor leys in the case have twenty (20) lays in which to prepare and pre lent their brief to the commission. Then the commission will have to lave time to study the entire caae x-fore their decision it made, rhercfora, it is not likely thfet they :ould possibly hand down their ae liatoo for a month or so at the earliest. Mayor John D. Wilson, treasurer if the croup, reports that we have inproximatelv eight hundred $800.00) dollars in the treasury. Mr. Bchrend's fee was thirty-five lundred ($3500.00) dollars, plus two lundrcd and fifty ($230.00) dollars ?xpcnscs and Mr. Howell's fee was hirty-five hundred ($3300.00) dol ars. The other miscellaneous ex tenses of this committee were rela ively low, but all have not been letermined yet. Our committee feels that this >alance should be retained in the reasury until after we hear tlie lecision of the commission. There s always the likelihood that the >etitioners and the protestants night seek relief from the com nission's findings in the courts. Our committee feels that they ' lad done the best job they possibly ?ould do and we feel confident that ve have performed a public utr 'ice to the telephone subscribers if East Carolina. This was our in- ! ention. It hss been a hard cam- ( laign, but it has been a pleasure o be associated in common effort { or a righteous cause. We hope j hat all participating governmental , nits are satisfied with our efforts nd the forthcoming results. Yours most sincerely, Rakert I. Powell Chairman East Carolina Phone Fight Committee Heavy Rain Falls Friday, Saturday; Clears for Weekend Nearly 4 inches of rain fell Fri lay and Saturday. Weather ob erver Stamey Davit reports that .38 inches fell Friday and ano her .38 inch fell on Saturday. The wind shifted from the south ast to the northeast Friday and he mercury dropped to (2 early laturday morning. The skies leared Saturday In time for liousands of visitors to crowd At intic Beach Saturday afternoon nd Sunday. Maximum and minimum tera eratures and wind direction for lie weekend follow: Max. Mil. Wind Thursday 83 78 SW Friday 80 87 NE Saturday 78 82 NK Sunday 80 83 NE Jert Lookout The lookout at Fort Macon apot ed a 22-foot open boat that wai isabled in Beaufort Inlet at 2:<M m. Friday. A Coast Guard boat rat aent out to tow the boat to leaufort, bom* at Kenneth Downes 'bo was aboard. Roma Willis, Beaufort, .as been charged with as ?aulting an 8-year-old Rirl in ? car at the south end of Turner Street, Beaufort, Pri iay. He was released from he county jail Saturday un ler $3,000 bond. The alleged molesting of the hild took place between 11 a.m. i fid noon Friday. The child's father eported it to Beaufort police who >icked up Willis at his home in the i00 block of Orange Street between J and 8 Friday night. Making the arrest were Guy Springle, chief of police, and Carlton Garner, assist ant chief. According to information given officers, the child's mother went into the Colonial Store to buy gro ceries. The little girl went to gst change to put a nickel in the meter, then she got in the car. While she was there, a man identified as Willis went up to the car and talked to her. She said that he got in the car and asked her to ride her bicycle around to his house to see him. Then he kiss ed her and made other advances. Then, she said, he got in his car and drove away. Willis has denied the charges against him. He is a former em ployee of both the Beaufort qnd Morehead City fire departments. Finders Return 251 Crab Tags To Fishery Lab Already 250 tagged blue crabs have been recovered, report* Charles Walburg of the Fish and Wildlife lab, Pivers Island, Beau fort. The Fish and Wildlife Service, in a project to trace the move ments of the commercially valu able blue crab, has tagged 3.000 crabs in Neusc River and Pamlico Sound. Aa a supplement to this project, fisheries biologists arc also taking crabs in poti at 12 locations in the Newport River. The crabs are measured, tagged and released. Persons who find a tagged crab are asked to mail the tag to the US Fishery lab. Beaufort, together with the date the crab was caught, where it was caught, such as the landing point or location near a channel marker, and type of gear used to get the crab. In return for the tag and the above information, the sender will receivc 23 cents. The tender should be sure to enclose his name ) and address with the tag, so that the 23-cent reward can be sent him. The tag is of red plastic, mark ed US Fishery Lab, Beaufort, N. C., on one side and bears a num ber on the other. If biologists can trace the travels of the blue crab, both male and female, they will better be able to predict fluctuation of the crab crop. The tagging program is being carried out by the Fish and Wild life Service in conjunction with the Oyster Institute of North America. One of the tagged crabs was re covered two weeks ago by William C. Horton Jr., Morchead City, who was crabbing in Calico Creek. Rotary Installs New Officers W. C. Carlton acted ai installing jfficer at the Moreheid City Ro :ary Club meeting Thursday night, rhe club met at the Rex Restau rant. Mr. Carlton installed Thomas Noe aa president and W. B. Chalk ?* vice-president. Albert Gaskill ind D. Cordova were re-Installed is treasurer and secretary respec ively. The board o I directors is com posed of the Rev. Guthrie Brown, i Dr. SUaa Thorn*, Dr. Darden Sure, Truman Kemp, Jasper Bell ind J. R. Sander*. Retiring mem Mrs of the board are I. E. Pitt nan, Mr. Chalk and Bud Dixon. Rotarian Frank Cassiano report ed on the progress of the new reen-Age League. The club has igreed to sponsor one team in the eague. Guest? and visitors at the meet ng included Phil Goodson, Green rUle;\S. Barbour, Clayton; Avery "roniag, Hamlet; Reid Holmes, Wlaaun-Salem; Barley Wade, Mor ;anto4; Cecil Moore, Kinston; Bob Montagu*, Newport; and Dr. Wor thy McKinney, Beckiey, W. Va., The architect Arm of Burett H. Stephen* ind Robert H. Stephen*, New Bern, ha* changed it* name x> R. H. Stephens-A. B. CuMli.