93 DAYS ? And Beaufort's N.w W.ll U Still UaUppadl NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR, NO. 64. EIGHT PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1958 " PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FBIDAY8 Two Marines Hurt Seriously In Collision ? Care Meet flead-On Thursday Night 9 Uninjured Driver of One Car Cited to Court Two Marines were seriously In jured at 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a head-on collision on Highway 70. They were Robert 0. Timmie, Cherry Point, who suffered a frac tured skull, and Vernon C. Islcy, also of Cherry Point, whose legs were broken. The accident happened three quarters of a mile west of the highway 24 and 70 intersection. Both cars were demolished. Two Not Hart Thomas Boykin Sr., Clinton and Mattie Murphy, Clinton, who were in the other car involved in the accident, were not hurt. The Clin ton people were in a 1953 Chevro let driven by Boykin. Timmie was driving a 1955 Chevrolet. According to R. H. Brown, high way patrolman who investigated, Boykin had pulled into a private driveway, then backed out and was attempting to go east in the west-bound lane when he collided with Timmie who was headed to ward Cherry Point. The patrolman said Boykin in tended to pull over into his proper lane, but didn't make it in time. Boykin is janitor at the Clinton High School in the winter months. At present he is employed at Camp Morehead, as is his passenger. He has been charged wtih careless and reckless driving. The injured were taken by Navy ambulance to Cherry Point Hos pital. County Board Member Dies Walter Moore Yeomans, 82, died at his home at Harkers Island Saturday evening. MV. Vmnaiu was a ton of the lat4 Eugene and Sara Brooks Yeomans of Harkers Island. He was a county commissioner, having been elected in 1950. He did not run for re-nomination in May. Mr. Yeomans retired from the Coast Guard as a -warrant of ficer after thirty years of service. He was also a master Mason. Funeral services were conducted in the Free Grace Pilgram Holi ness Church. Harkers Island, at 2 p.m. yesterday by the Rev. C. C. McMasters. Interment was in the Davis Cemetery. He Is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna Davis Yeomans; three daughters, Mrs. Plymouth Guthrie, Mrs. Louise Fulcher and Mrs. Hor ace Nelson; two sons. Walter M. Yeomans Jr. and Harold W. Yeo mans; three sisters. Mrs. Carrie Guthrie, Mrs. Mattic Davis and Mrs. Lena Willis. Two brothers, Dan Yeomans and Luther Yeomans: one half-sister, Mrs. Johnny Willis; one half-bro ther, David E. Yeomans; all of Harkers Island; seventeen grand children and fourteen great-grand , children. Another Wreck, Same Old Place Another wreck occurred at 24th and Arendell Streets. Morehead -City, at 11 p.m. Thnrsday. A 1958 Buick station wagon driven by Lloyd David Martin, Richmond, Va., collided with a 1958 Chevrolet station wagon driven by Percy Green, Atlantic Beach. According to E. D. O'Neal Jr., in vestigating officer, the Buick was going north from Atlantic Beach, stopped at the stop sign and then continued north and struck the Chevrolet as it was making a left turn from Arendell to go south on 24th Street. The Buick struck the Chevrolet on the left front door causing an estimated $25 damage. Again, it was an instance of a stranger not knowing that you have to stop twice at the 24th and Aren dell Street intersection when going north or south, once at the stop sign and once again where there is I no stop sign after crossing the rail road tracks. Car Sua la Pitch Edwin Lee, John Smith, and Ronald Brect, all ft Camp Lejeune, were Jailed at 1 a.m. Saturday on drunkenness e h a r g e a. Smith, driver of a car, ran the car In a ditch oa Highway TO about six miles west of Morehead City, offi cers said. He had been charged with driving drunk. Investigating officers were deputy sheriff Bobby BaU and constable George Smith. Lieutenant Receives Award i i ? i Lt. Lester W. Willis, USCG, native or Morehead City, in behalf of the Cape May Group, US Coast Guard Moorings, Cape May, N. J., receives a New Jersey Department of Defense Award for outstand ing performance In Civil Defense and Disaster Control, from Air Force Lt. Col. John 8. Dletx, State of New Jersey Ground Observer Corps Coordinator. Looking on, right, is Capt. John L. SteinmeU, USCG, commanding officer of the US Coast Guard Receiving Center, Cape May, N. J. SPA Expected to Report Soon On Grain Loader Agreement State to Inventory Real Estate Which It Owns Director of administration, Paul A. Johnston, and Isaac T. Avery of Statesvillc, chairman of the North Carolina Bar Association's com mittee on state-owned land, have reported to Governor Hodges that a plan of action has been develop ed for earning out the recently announced plan to inventory all real. property owned by tlx state. At the igihe lime the two spokes men announced that, although the study will begin as soon as possi ble in all counties, initial emphasis will be placed on three counties representing different sections of the state. These counties are New Hanover, Orange and Wilkes. The inventory in these counties will be observed closely by the state-level committee for improvements in procedures for the other 97 coun ties. Two-Phase Program In the report to the governor, it was explained that the long-range program will be divided into two phases. The first phase, to which the bar association will devote pri mary emphasis, calls for compila tion of land records where there is a recorded transaction. The sec ond phase will involve a search for lands for which there is no record ed transaction. The plan provides for members of the bar association to undertake the job of aearching register of deeds offices in all counties for all deeds to and from the State of North Carolina and its agencies. Clerks of court offices will also be searched for wills involving state property. The task faced by the committee is complicated by the fact that deeds have been made to and from the state, in the name of the state, in the name of several governors, and in the varying names of many state agencies and institutions. Deeds are indexed in various See CHECK-UP, Page 2 State to Check Timber-Cutting The State Boar4 of J^ducation has requested the attorney gen eral to investigate reports of tim ber-cutting from state-owned land in this county. The request was made at the board of education meeting Thurs day at Raleigh, but no details rela tive to the inquiry were released. The attorney general was also asked to "take whatever action is necessary". A county official, contacted in re gard to the matter yesterday, said he knew of no timberland o^ned by the state in this county. "The state," he continued, "is trying to claim everything nobody has a clear title to. Of course, people run their lines any place they wpnt and claim the land until somebody stops them . . If the state is going to get into the business of claiming it owns timber in this county, it is the general concensus that the state is cutting out for itself a job of many years of court battles. Two Men in Skiff End Up Sunday in County Jail Jesse Evans and Raleigh Evans, both of Goldsboro, were put in the county jail at 9 a.m. Sunday on charges of drunkenness. George Smith, constable, said the men rented a boat and motor at Fleming's fishing pier at 1 a.m. Suftday. The constable was called eight hours later from Fort Macon where the two had beached the boat. He locked the would-be . navigators up. ? The State Ports Authority? bar I ring unforeseen complication!; ? is I expected to announce soon an agreement with the P. R. Markley Grain Corp., Philadelphia, on establishment of a grain loader at Morehead City port. It is anticipated that the firm will start moving grain from More head City by Oct. 1. John H. Frazier Jr., of the Mark ley firm, appeared before the State Ports Authority in Morehead City in March relative to establishing a grain exporting facility at "either Morehead City w Wilmington. At that time he presented plans for a grain elevator, which would be a more elaborate operation the loader. Already at the port is a grain loading device placed there by Cargill Corp., one of the nation's largest grain exporters. Although the Cargill operation was not as successful as hoped, the Markley firm believes that by devoting time to establishing a grain route be tween Morehead City port and nearby elevators in the state, the grain export business can become a major source of revenue at Morehead City port. Raleigh sources said yesterday that the Markley people have ac quired the Cargill lease. When Mr. Frazier appeared be fore the SPA in March, he pointed out that grain moving through Morehead City would mean lower transportation costs than by the present route through Norfolk. Other advantages he cited were more ships calling at the port, in creased longshoremen's payroll, plus indirect revenue (as well as direct! to the state through Sou thern Railway's hauling the grain. Morehead City Chamber of Com m e r c e industrial development funds have been used during the past year in contacting Marldey representatives. Others in More head City interested in develop ment of the port have also been in close contact with persons involved in the proposed grain operation. Morehead City sources yeaterday were reluctant to make any com ment on the Markley proposition, pending the announcement from the SPA. New Father Performs Feats 'Above, Beyond Call of Duty' Mrs. David Lee, the former Myra Guthrie, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Rudolph Guthrie, route 1 Newport, had an agonizing wait recently while her husband waa bringing their 4-day-old adopted daughter from Florida to (he L>ee borne at Norwalk, Calif. Mr. Lee "flew" crosscountry with the baby while Mra. Lee took the train. The full story, aa it appeared in a California newspaper, follows: Dave Lee's introduction to fa therhood was ? rugged one, but he camc through with flying colors. The living proof is little Donna Sue, brought all the way across the country by plane and train only four days after her birth. And by Lee alone, despite his total inexperience in the ways of babies Lee ll foreman at the plant a I Leach Corp. in Compton, where he supervises workmen who as semble ground power support ?qaipmeBt tor aircraft and mis silea. > That's nothing he says, com pared to the job he unwittingly tackled when he picked up his adopted daughter recently in Florida. Lee took on the task singlchand edly because his wife won't fly. They couldn't see the sense of ex posing the infant to a long train trip when a flight takes only 13 hours. His troubles began on the first leg of the return flight, when a storm between Miami and Chicago cauaed him to miss a connecting plane to the coast. Another air line refused to fly the baby with out a doctor's certificate and told him to try the train. Lee took the baby to a hotel room, while arranging train reser vations. Then he ran out of the formula prepared by a Miami hoa pital. He had to make hia own, 10 ounces of canned milk to 4 ounces at hot water. All be could get on the train was ? wmHH Br tl? time be tad the baby and the car carrier and all the necessary paraphernalia were loaded aboard, there was no room to put the bed down. Lee sat up two days and two nights without a wink of sleep pre paring formula, sterilizing nipples and bottles, feeding and changing the baby. Eventually he arrived home at 11933 Front St.. Norwalk, where Mrs. Lee waited anxiously. They took Donna Sue to a pediatrician, who pronounced Lee's homemade formulas and tender, loving care successful. The baby had gained 12 ounces. And Lee had LOST five POUNDS. Croastiea Born Charles Edwards, fire depart ment engineer, reported Friday that old croastiea stacked on Aren dell Street, across from the Uojd Fry roofing company, caught fire at S p.m. Thursday. Firemen put the fire out and returned to sta tion in lull mo hour. . v $20,000 Hurricane Study To be Made on Banks Wilmington?A cooperative shored protection study of the Fort Macon Atlantic Beach area was an nounced here Thursday by Col. H. C. Rowland Jr.. district engineer of the Corps of Engineers' Wil mington District. The study, to be initiated imme diately, will be conducted jointly by the Corps of Engineers and by the State of North Carolina through the Department of Conservation and Development, according to Colonel Rowland. He said the state had already allotted 110,000 as one half of the estimated $20,000 the survey is ex pected to cost. The remaining (10, 000 will be provided by the Federal Government. The area to be included in the study approximates five miles of shoreline beginning on the sound side of Fort Macon and reaching around the point and then west ward. ( Principal objective is to study the erosion problem first and then follow up with a recommendation on the most practical method of preventing further recession of the beach. Normal tides and storms have caused serious damage to the beach and dunes in past years, records show, and continued grad ual loss of valuable sand will be the rule unless protective mea sures are provided. The problem at Fort Macon and westward is not new. Erosion has been in progress there for 100 years and more. Even General Lee. history says, took note of the situation when he was there in the IMO's. Rotarians Hear Town Recreation Head Thursday Fred 1-cwU, director of the town ircr"