w CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
47th YEAR. NO. 57. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFOBT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Murder, Suicide Plot Falls Through
motos by Hob Seymour
Sharon Lewis, S, sits on the lap of Mrs. Roscoe Gaskins, New Bern, after getting a bath and eating.
Walter Gaskins Jr., ID, right, and Jimmy French, 8, both of Kinston, found the little girl near their cot
tage at Emerald Isle. Tuesday morning.
Chris Davies, 7, Recovers
From Auto Accident Injury
Chest Clinic
To Begin at 10
Monday Morning
The second chest clinic will be
held at the Carteret County Health
Department. Beaufort, Monday be
ginning at 10 a.m.
Former tuberculosis patients,
contacts and suspects can be ex
amined at this time by appoint
ment only, by a chcst specialist
who will come here from the East
ern North Carolina Sanatorium.
"Tuberculosis is a disease that
can be erased in our county, if
everyone will take advantage of
the facilities our county now has
to offef," said Dr. Luther Fulcber,
health officer.
Tuberculin tests are now being
done on all food handlers applying
for health cards. The tests are
given Tuesday morning, Morehead
City, in the hospital annex, 9 to
11 a.m., and Tuesday afternoon,
health department, Beaufort, 1 to
4 p.m.
If these tests are positive, then
an x-ray of the chest is made and
reported negative to tuberculosis,
before a health card is issued.
Children under 15 who are TB
contacts are also given tuberculin
testa first, and x-rays made only
when such tests arc positive. Tu
berculin tests will be done on- any
adult, without cost, on Tuesday
at either of the above clinica. If
test shows a positive reaction AS
hours after test Is made, x-rays
of chest are made on Tuesday t
to 12 and Thursday 9 to 12 at the
health department in Beaufort at
the coat of *3.
Any physician in the county who
haa a patient that he considers a
suspect can call the health de
partment (2-5376 ) for an appoint
ment and his patient can be ex
amined at thia clinic, Dr. Fulcher
announces. Reports are mailed to
the family doctor of each patient
examined, directly following the
clinic.
Letters have been mailed to sev
eral ex-patients, contacts and sus
pects giving them the opportunity
of thU service, Dr. Fulcber re
port*.
The first clinic of this kind in
the county waa on June 1C, with
Dr. H. F. Easom in charge.
Seventeen patients were exam
ined It thia first clinic.
ABC Completes M
County ASC office manager B. J.
May reports that persona working
out at his office will complete re
measuring and diaposition of all
excesa allotment crops today or
tomorrow.
?-Mr.Kstwja
and cuts he received when a cif
drove over him twice Wednesday
afternoon.
Being held in county Jail in con
nection with the accident are WU
Ham Earl Chapman and U?
Reecc, both of Morehead Citj . Pj
trolman W. J. Smith Jr., who in
vestigated, said Chapman is being
held on a hit and run charge under
$1,000 bond and Reece is l*iB
held under $250 bond on a charge
of aiding and abetting.
According to the Patrolman^
Chapman, driving a dark .
Buick, backed out from the Rex
Restaurant parking lot, ran over
the Davies boy. then went fo?afd,
crossing over his body agaUi- Th
car also bumped Stevic Wagncr
?, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wag
ner, with whom Chris was playing.
Runs to Mother
Stevie, who got a bump on
head, went screaming
ther The Wagners rushed Oins
to the Morehead City Hospital. He
had not lost consciousness. Mrs.
Davies said yesterday that the fact
that Chris was in soft sand was
probably the only Uung that saved
HThe children's identification of
the car led to the arrest, of Chap
man and Reece. .
Chris told his mother, after the
car ran over him once. I tried
to find myself a hole so 1 could
crawl out. but before 1 could. 1?
ran over me again."
?Mark on Back1 "> .
The children said that the car
was dark green. Chris said It had
a funny red mark on
Mrs Davies said 0,8 ^*1*
was where some paint had ?een
put or spilled.
With the two boys at. the time
was Stevie's little sister. Barbie,
who was not hit by tl* car.
Patrolman Smith^said thatafUT
the two men were found, they told
of the incident. Chapman, who
work, at the Rex Re't""*; **
that he had gotten in his car and
driven away from the re"t^"r*"j
but had lost his tlgaretUa and
lighter, so he went back to where
the oar had been parked to look
for them. ' '
See HIT AND rale 1
Morehead Reco?nixed
For 1957 Safety Record
The National Safety Council h?
presented the town of Morehead
City with a certificate commending
the town for a record of no pedes
trian fatalities In 1957.
The eerttflcate was "J*4**1
Monday by Mayor 2S,
It La- framed and ia hanging with
other certificates of commends
Hon In the police department in
the town tailL
C&D Board
To Meet Monday
At Wilmington
Wilmington _ Gov. Luther H.
Hodges will preside when the State
Board of Conservation and Devel
Tuesda'y. m t6l! M?nday a"d
The governor, the lg-member
board, director William P. Saun
ders of the Department of Conser
vation and Development, assistant
director J Edgar Kirk, and eight
divisional heads of the department,
lor which the C&D board is the
policy-making body, will arrive
Opens at ? A.M.
The first general session of the
5?*? 3?? 41 9 * m Mon<iay in
the lobby of the Surf Club at
Wnghtsville Beach.
Following the invocation by the
?? 'rank Hall, pastor, Pear
Mil Memorial Presbyterian Church
the welcome address will be given
by John H. Fox, president of the
Greater Wilmington Chamber of
Commeh*. T. Ma* Watson, board
member from Spindale, will re
spond.
Reports by Saunders and his as
sistant, will I follow. At 10 a.m. the
board wfll bear any person wisb
wh L-h ^ *rdJ)" matter over
which the board has jurisdiction.
At 10:30 a.m. there will be a
joint meeting of the board s com
mittee on commerce and industry
md the State Ports Authority at
the Surf Club. The two groups will
hoUl- separate meetings at 11 jo in
the Surf Club.
Governor to Speak
Governor Hodges will make the
principal address at the 12:30
luncheon for the two groups in the
Surf Club where they will be
guests i of the Greater Wilmington
L/iamber of Commerce and New
HaDover County.
Committee meetings will be held
Monday afternoon and Tucada*
wiu> the final board sea
i <et ft?r l:? p.m. at the Cape
Fear Country Club.
m?? ^ ?M*rtin' chair
man, H. C. Kennett, Durham, F J
Qty' ,nd Cecil Mori
ns Atlantic, members of the
board 1 .subcommittee for f^oces
1^*. *2^, Ragtag m food pro
dueta^ "KJ their wives will be host.
^ *? * ,oci,1 hour ?nd
?n~r at 6:30 Monday evening ,t
* Mr ?nd M"
witeBaZcl, Wri,hU
.P?, Ore?ter Wilmington Cham
".Commi-co and New Han
"*?r County will be baata at .
twT00 *' *** -C*pe Fe,r Club
^?day^prec^diq, tk. bo^.,
Roland Lewis, 24, in handcuffs, (eta out of the sheriff's car at the
county jail. All Lewis was wearinf when he was picked up was this
pair of shorts.
Sheriff Hugh Salter examines the back window where i hose was
ma from the exhanst into the car. Ragi were staffed arovnd the
hose and in the crack In the window to make it air-tight. A hose in
the window on the other side had pulled oat when the sheriff arrived.
ASC Office Makes Checks
For Soil Bank Payments
Defendant Pays
$10 Fine, Costs
Louis J. Lyons, Cherry Point,
drew the heaviest penalty ta At
lantic Beach mayor's court Mon
day night. He paid $10 and costs
for being drunk in public and using
loud and profane language.
Peter Criilo, Cherry Point, paid
$5 and colts for molesting women
and was ordered to stay away
from the beach for a year.
Five dollars and costs were paid
by Joseph P. Milersti and Joeeph
J. Blanchard, both of Cherry Point,
for drinking whiskey in public.
Richard McKinney Lee paid tosts
on the same charge.
Lewis Maseiflo, Cherry point,
paid costs on a charge of interfer
ing with a police officer while the
officer was making an arrest.
Continued was the case of James
M. Provest, Cherry Point, charged
with public drunkenness.
Fads Off Tractor
Terry Louis Willis, S, route 1
Newport, fell off a tractor Monday
afternoon and suffered severe
gashes in his foot, almost sever
ing It from his leg. He was admit
ted to the Morehead City Hospital
at 4:13 p.m.
' son DanK cnecKs win De ae
livered to 187 county farmers this
year. B. J. May, manager of the
county- ASC office, says that far
mers will get notices to stop by
his office and pick up their checks
next week.
Mr. May says that this year's
payments total $110,771. Most of
this, $106311. will go to 182 to
bacco farmers who put 405 acres
in Ihe soil bank.
Other farmers, who participated
in the program were '24 cotton
growers and one wheat farmer.
A farmer may place as much as
his entire aloltment for any of
these crops in the soil bank. His
payments are based on the yield
of this land -in previous' years.
The soil bank prpgram was Ini
tiated by tile US Department of
Agriculture as a means of alle
viating a major surplus problem.
Cart Collide Tuesday
On Harkcrp Island Road
Two carl' collided on the Har
kerx Island Road at 8:10 p.m.
Tuesday, three miles from High
way 70. As a result of the accident,
Gilbert M. Russell, Harkers Island,
has been cRarged with driving
drunk.
Russell in a 1962 Ford was at
tempting to make a U-turn on a
curve, according to Patrolman W.
J. Smith Jr., when Mrs. Polly
Moore Davis, Harkers Island, In
a 1963 Chrysler, going north, hit
the Ford. ~ '
Sheriff Says Roland Lewis
Rigged Car to Kill Daughter
Sharon Lewis, 3, cats her first meal after being found Tuesday
morning. Ail she wanted were a sandwich and a glass of milk. Mrs.
Roscoe Gaskins took care of Sharon until her grandfather, Guy Gil*
likin, Bettie, came after her.
Sheriff Hugh Salter shows the elaborate rig set up by Roland Lewis
Id his suicied attempt. Lewis's 1(52 Ford had dual exhausts and he
had clamped hoses to both tall pipes.
Middle East Uproar Felt
In Movements to Port
Beauty Queen
To Visit Here
Miss Betty Lane Evans of Green
ville, Miss North Carolina, will
arrive in Morchcad City Sunday
afternoon to begin a week-long va
cation as' guest of the Jaycees.
She will stay at the Morchead
BUtmore Hotel during her visit
here. The Jaycees have planned
Mist Lane's vacation for her, see
ing that she enjoys all the recrea
tion facilities available.
Miss Bonnie Fish, Miss More
head City, will accompany Miss'
Evans on some of her tours. Miss
Fish attended the Jaycee meeting
Monday night at the Blue Ribbon
Club and gave a report on the
beauty pageant and discussed Miss
North Carolina's visit to Morehcad
City with .the club.
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
(Eastern Standard Time)
Tide Table
HIGH
LOW
Friday, July 18
9:16 a.m.
9:27 p.m.
3:21 a.m.
3:28 p.m.
Saturday, July II
10:07 a.m.
10:19 p.m.
4:01 a.m.
4:10 p.m.
NBBday, July 2*
11:00 a.m.
11:13 p.m.
4:42 a.m.
4:57 p.m.
Moaday, July 21
11:54 a.m.
5:27 a.m.
5:52 p.m.
Tuesday, July 22
12:08 a.m.
8:18 a.m.
7:00 p.m.
12:48 p.m.
' The Middle East tension made
itself felt in Carteret this week a*
Marine convoys rumbled swiftly
through Morehead City to the port
where ships were being loaded with
equipment.
The Atlantic Fleet was ready to
move on four-hour notice as Ma
rines occupied strategic points in
Lebanon, a pro-western nation
which stood in danger of being
consumed by the Arabian "nation
alism" fire spreading throughout
the Middle East.
The United States sent its crack i
troops, Marines and Air Force i
men, into Lebanon at the request i
of the Lebanese government. This I
was followed by entry of British
paratroopers into Jordan, again at j
the request of the Jordanian gov
ernment. i
The United States and British i
moves brought, of course, swift '
protest from Russia, which likes i
to exercise full control over any
rebel uprising. I
The movement of troops into
Lebanon and Jordan fallowed a i
revolt in Iraij over the weekend. 1
There, revolutionists backing I
Egypt's movement to unite "the ]
Arab world", killed members of I
the ruling family, including King
Faisal.
Faisal was In sympathy with
the United States and British poli
cies, as are Lebanon and Jordan.
Egypt, ruled by Nasser, lias shown
definite leanings toward Russia.
Most of the United States troops
moved to the Middle East have
been air-lifted. A transport loaded
with Marines started earlier this
week from the Morehead City port,
but waa called back before it got
out of the harbor. The troop* were
then flown to Lebanon.
Lejetme Marinea went to Cherry
Point Wednesday where they
boarded planes for the Middle
East
In the county jail under
$2,000 bond yesterday, was
Roland S. Lewis, Otway,
uho is charged with at
tempting to kill his 3-year
old daughter, Sharon.
Lewis, according to Sheriff Hugh
Salter, put his daughter in a car
on a side road at Emerald Isle
late Monday, ran hoses from the
double exhaust to inside the car,
turned the car motor on and at
tempted to kill the child and him
self with carbon monoxide gas.
Sharon, however, is alive and
well today. She was found at about
8 o'clock Tuesday morning, lying
face down on the sand about 10
feet from the car. She was par
tially conscious and was taken to
the nearby home of Mrs. Hoscoe
Gaskins, New Bern.
How she got out of the car is
a mystery. According to the sher
iff, Lewis claims he took the child
out.
auicicir toniempiau-a
Lewis himself intended to com
mit suicide, but as he was in the
car and the fumes became heavier,
he told the sheriff he couldn't take
it. He first opened the vents in
the windows, then pulled one of
the hoses out of the car window
and eventually got out himself.
From then on, he told Sheriff
Hugh Salter, he couldn't remem
ber anything.
He was found by Coast Guards
men from Bogue Inlet station at
about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The
Coast Guardsmen came upon him
about two or three miles west of
Emerald Isle.
In county recorder's court yes
terday, Ixiwis's case was continued
until July 31, while the sheriff s
department concludes its investi
gation. The sheriff says subsequent
evidence may necessitate altering
the charges now against Lewis.
The near-tragedy had its begin
ning at 6:45 p.m. Monday when
Lewis, who is separated from his
Wife. Janet GUlikin Lewis, went
to the home of his wife, at Bcttie
and asked to take Sharon for a
ride. Sharon and her mother live
with Mrs. lewis's father, Guy GU
likin.
Lewis and his daughter drove
away in his tan 1952 Ford. By 8 30
p.m. they had not returned and
the child's grandfather, Mr. Gil
likin, became worried. He started
looking for them. He went to the
beach and searched the amuse
ment rides, but Sharon was not to
be found. He went to the home
of Lewis's mother, at Otway. She
was not there.
CaUs Sheriff
At 10:30, he called Sheriff Sal
ter. The sheriff and Mr. Gillikin
looked in vain until 2 a.m. Tues
day.
At 8 o'clock that morning Jimmy
French, 8, and Walter Gaskins Jr.,
10, both of Kinston found the little
girl lying near the car.
It was parked on a dead end
road leading north to Bogue Sound,
about a mile east of the Emerald
Isle Motel.
The boys ran back to the cot
See OTWAY MAN, Page 2
Fisheries Unit
Patrols from Air
The date fisheries division is
now patrolling with a plane. C.
G. Holland, commercial fisheries
commissioner, reported yesterday
that the plane arrived three weeks
ago. Since then, a radio has been
put in it.
The plane Is white, trimmed in
red, and equipped with pontoons
to that it can land beside vessels.
The pilot is Arthur Rose, Beau
fort. Flying with him will be Leon
Thomas, Marshallberg, law en
forcement supervisor.
Commissioner Holland said the
shrimp scene has brightened very
little. Moat of the North Carolina
boats are working in South Caro
lina and Georgia. Only 10 to IS
boxes of shrimp are being packed
daily at Southport, Holden's Beach
>nd Wrightsville.
Neither Is there any activity in
clams. But the hard crab produc
tion haa mounted tremendously.
Especially In Pamlico, Beaufort
?nd Hyde Counties is production
up.
Commissioner Holland attributes
this to the fact that everybody ia
crabbing in an attempt to take up
the 'slack in the shrimping and
damming.
North Carolina crab meat, be ad
ded, is holding the same favor in
New York at crab meat (rem ether
itates. He said the quality ia im
proved and dealers today have
nor* experience Id parking JL