"w CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
47th YEAR, NO. 65. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MORE HEAD CITY AND BKAUFOBT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Nelva More , Model and Actress,
Visits Kinfolk in Morehead City
Photo by Reginald Lewis
NelVa More, native daughter at Greensboro, now of New York City, Is vacationing in Morehead City.
Nelva More, model and actress
who *ill leave New York next
month to make a movie in Rome,
is spending this week with her sis
ter, Mrs. Walter Franklin, Golden
Arrow apartments, Morehcad City.
Hiss More will play the second
female lead in the movie, 0 Rosa
MU. She will appear as the sister
of the leading character, Gina
Lollohrlgida. This will be her first
niajor film role.
' The tall beauty is a native of
Greensboro, N. C. One of five sis
teri (no brothers), she is the only
one to enter the dramatic world.
Went to Florida
She left Greensboro for Florida
where she gave swimming lessons
and modeled at the pool at the
Sans Souci Hotel. Miami Beach.
Then she went to New York where
she was a member of the original
group of June Taylor dancers.
In New York she won two beauty
contests which had as prizes
courses at the Conovcr Modeling
School, but she never finished the
modeling instruction. She has ap
peared on the cover of Collier's,
Harper's Bazaar ahd Redbook
magazines, on numerous tv shows
?the General Elcctric Motor a tna
Show, Jackie Glcason Show, The
Web, and has done tv commercials
for numerous top-name cosmetics.
She used to pose for all the
Pepsi-Cola billboards, the artist
making the finished sketch for the
ad from the photo.
Miss More was Ava Gardner's
understudy in The Barefoot Con
tcssa; she did a solo dance ip
Stagcstruck, starring Susan Stras
berg and Henry Fonda; had a bit
part in A Face in the Crowd, star
ring Andy Griffith; appeared in
The Ex-King with Mickey Rooney
and did a re make of The Blonde
Savage, starring Jimmy Stewart.
One of her first roles in films
was with Frankic Lainc in The
Sunny Side of the Street.
Miss More is booked for her
film and modeling work through
Famous Artists, a New York agen
cy.
Studied at RADA
She studied drama at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts. Lon
don. Her stay in Rome, while O
Rosa Mia is being filmed, will be
four to six months.
Actually, she's a brunette, but
orders were to dye her hair blonde
for the forthcoming film role be
cause as a brunette she too closely
resembles the sultry Gina Lollo
brigida.
! Miss More stands 5 foot 7 '4. Her
I "vital statistics" arc 34-22-35. She
blushingly admits that the 35 is
shrinking things a bit? she's here
in Morehead City hoping to take
off a bit of weight. Her nephew,
Larry Franklin, 7, is a big help.
He keeps her so busy dashing in
and out of the water at the beach
that she figures she's bound to
lose pounds through sheer exertion.
Ire of Morehead Citizens Roused
By Trash Dump in Residential Area
Truck Backs
Info Car Monday
A truck and a car collided on
Highway 70 at 5:10 p.m. Monday
it Sea 1/eveI, causing damage to
the vehicles amounting to $315. No
one was injured.
Patrolman J. W. Sykes. who in
vestigated, said that a 1954 Dodge
ton-and-a-balf truck, driven by Carl
H. Bell, Atlantic, backed into a
IMS Ford driven by Mervin N.
Hancock, Sea Level.
The accident happened when
Bell was backing his truck to pick
up a hitch-hiker. He failed to see
the ear behind him and crashed
into K. A block of ice in the back
of the truck flew out and landed
on the car. -
Bell has been charged with fail
ing to maintain a proper lookout.
Both vehicles were faced toward
Atlantic. Hancock had just let out a
passenger and was getting under
way again, when the truck backed
into him.
Damage to the Ford wai esti
mated at |300, damage to the
track, fl5.
Teoplc in the vicinity of the
Camp Glenn. School, Bud Dixon's
Motel and the West End fire sta
tion, Morehead City, have been
angered by garbage being dumped
in the swamp area in front of the
Camp Gicnn School, alonf Aren
dell Street.
The following letter was received
tbis week by, THE NEWS-TIMES:
Attention of Mayor George Dill:
Before coming to Morehead City,
we lived in innumerable cities and
small towns (one of them, a min
ing town in New Mexico, where
living conditions ? arc supposed to
be primitive) BUT never before
hare we had a garbage disposal
dropped practically in our front
yard.
Wc Understand that this has been
done with- your permission; and
with Uiat of A. D. Fulford, the
County Sanitarian, and of Dr. A.
F. Chestnut, of the Board of Edu
cation.
The she of Morehead City's new
garbage dump is the area between
the Camp Glenn School and the
Fire House. 1U consequent
stenches cover the ana. North,
South, East, and West for several
blocks around 34th Street It la a
residential district, in which, moat
of the residents are home-owners,
who imagined that they were buy
tug ill a decent, bauiUry town
This is not just hear-say report
ing. We have watched trucka and
private cars dashing in ? one after
another? to deposit not only trash,
but filthy garbage at our front
doors . . . With the permission of
our so-called HEALTH DEPART
MENT.
And as they drive in and dump
rubbish AND GARBAGE into that
sink hole, we are swamped in
stench and accompanying flies.
We have become innured to the
fact that Morehead City has no in
tention of doing anything about
the drainage in our neighborhood,
which, from open ditche? floods
filth into our yards with each rain
storm ? and in which our neigh
bors' children play. They say they
are short of funds.
Out it is hard to believe that our
Mayor, our County Sanitarian, and
the Roard of Education can de
liberately make our homes unliv
able by dumping a pestilential
source of disease and contagion I
into our homes. This is too re
miniscent of the Middle Ages.
The above is angrily endorsed ?
by all in the neighborhood of that i
outrageous stcnch. I
C. Arthur Steae
Elton* C. Stone 1
Investigation of the situation by '
THE NEWS-TIMES revealed that J
8m gasbags duxt, rift ? ,
State Civil Defense Men
Meet with County Officials
Col. W. II. Dawson and Uaj. R.
E. Smith, State Civil Defense of
ficers, -net Tuesday night with
John Valentine, county CD direc
tor, Moses Howard, chairman of
the county board of commission
ers, commisisoners Skinner Chalk
and Odeii Merrill, and James Pot
ter, auditor. The meeting was held
in the courthouse.
Colonel Dawson stated that the
Federal Civil Defense administra
tion has designated seven areas in
North Carolina as vital target
areas and a total of 14 civilian and
military target areas. The three
closest to Carteret being Cherry
Point Marine Air Station, Camp
Lejeune and Wilmington, all prime
targets.
The colonel stated that nuclear
weapons, including those of 20 me
gaton yield, arc available to the
Soviet Union and would primarily
be used in the event of war and
would probably be delivered by
manned aircraft, supplemented by
missiles delivered from subma
rines or surface ships.
The blast of such a bomb would
cover a 20-mile radius which
would place Carteret partially in
side the Cherry Point perimeter in
case of a direct hit and well with
in the fallout area.
tin initial blast a 10 mile radius
of Cherry Point would be in the
100 per cent destruction area.
The colonel stated that under the
master state plan, Carteret resi
dents would be evacuated. Craven
County has been designated as a
support county to receive some
25,000 evacuecs from the Cherry
Point target area.
it is proposed that Carteret res
idents shall be evacuated by land,
with Mr. Howard, chairman of the
county board, and Mr. Valentine
having the authority to state when
evacuation is necessary.
Colonel Dawson stated that in
case of atomic attack on Camp le
jeune and Cherry Point, the area
would have only three hours warn
ing.
Also presented was the master
Civil Defense plan for the state
and recent and past activities of
the state's preparedness activities.
It was stated that if counties and
cities so desire, there are federal
matching funds available for Civil
Defense purposes such as purchas
ing radio and communication
equipment, fire fighting equip
ment, auxiliary power generators,
etc.
Judge Hands
Down Two Jail
Terms Monday
# James White Will
Serve Three Months
? E. A. Hessee Appeals
To Higher Court
Judge Herbert Phillips handed
down two jail sentences in More
head City Recorder's court Mon
day.
James White, colored male
Morehead City, will serve three
months I or (ailing to comply with
a suspended sentence. Eugene Hes
see, Morehead City, found guilty
of public drunkenness and mali
cious damage to personal property,
was sentenced to 30^1?y> in jail
He appealed to superior court
and his appeal bond was set at
$50.
Robert Eugene Gross, Cherry
Point, found guilty of driving
drunk, driving without an opera
tor's license and driving on the
wrong si<?~ of the road was given
a 90-day ,.?ntence, suspended on
payment of $125 and costs.
Found Guilty
Johnny Carral, Camp l.rjeune,
was found guilty of speeding and
having an improper muffler. He
was given a 60-day sentence, sus
pended on payment of $25 and $10,
plus court costs. The $10 fine is to
be remitted if he gets a proper
muffler. He was also ordered to
surrender his driver's license for
six months.
Cecil Earl Smith, Bayboro, was
found guilty of speeding, careless
and reckless driving and driving
on the wrong side of the road. He
was fined $50 and costs.
Basil Holmes Oates Jr. New
Bern, was found guilty of speed
ing and ordered to pay costs. He
appealed and bond was set at $100.
Walter C. Helms Sr., Morehead
City, pleaded guilty to carele**
8c* COURT, Page S
Police Dismantle 'Bomb'
Found at Ammunition Dump
A home made time bomb was
discovered early Tuesday morning
on state property at Camp Glenn,
and John Allea Owens, 17, of 113
Broad St., Beaufort, was appre
hended several hours later by Of
ficer Bill Condic of the Morehead
City police department. - Owens
was picked up when he went to
retrieve his "bomb" at the mouth
of what used to be an ammunition
storage dump.
Owens, who told police chief
Herbert Griffin that he is experi
menting with rockets, said he
thought the Camp Glenn site was
the best place to test his home
made device.
The device made by Owens was
Virginia Objects
To Port Rates
Norfolk, Va. ? A proposal before
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to reduce the rates at the
Morehead City port haa brought
the protest of the Virginia State
Porta commission which elatms
that the proposed reduction would
be discrimination against Hamp
ton Roads.
The Southern Rsilroad has pro
posed a cut for non-shipside rates
on rayon and other synthetic fibre
wastes imported at Morrhead City
for distribution in western North
Carolina.
The Virginia commission claims
that the proposed reduction would
give Morehead City a cheaper rate
than Hampton Boads.
The Virginia commission points
out that Hampton Roads is only 11
miles farther from BUck Mountain
than is Morehead City. .
Three Marines Picked Up,
Charged with AWOL
Three Marines were charged at
10 Wednesday night lor being
?way from Camp Lejeune without
leave and wearing civilian eiothes.
The three, Donald R. Stone,
Richard W. Richmond Jr., and
John T. Martin, were turaod over
to the military police by Um sher
iff's department.
They were picked up at Mack's
Drive-In on highway 101. A mili
tary jeep that they allegedly uacd
to get to the drive-in was later
found abandoned oa a road back
* the t ub Maal Co.
in t cigar box, and wan discovered
at about t:20 a.m. by Frank Swin
dell, Negro employee with the
State Highway Department.
Swindell, with other workmen,
is living in the trailer! on state
properly at Camp Glenn. They are
doing work on the bridge across
Newport River.
When Swindell heard the ticking,
then discovered the bomb, he told
other workmen who, be said, paid
no attention to him. Then he called
the police. Officer Buck Newsome
went to the scene at about 7:30
and when he saw the rig, went for
Chief Griffin.
The officers did not know what
time the bomb was set to go off,
and fearing that it may detonate
any minute, they broke the wiring
connections in the box by firing
at it with a rifle.
The bullet-damage made it im
possible to determine what time
the bomb had been set to explode.
Bomb Ingredients
A snuff-box of gunpowder and
sand, flashlight batteries, a full
sized alarm clock, carefully sol
'do red wires, all paeked tightly in
the eigar box with kleonex, com
prised the bomb.
Chief Griffin said that had the
thing blown, it probably would
have made a report as loud as a
shotgun.
Owens has not been charged with
any law violation, but was warned
his experiments might lead to in
jury to himself or someone else.
He said he placed the "bomb"
at the point where it was discover
ed at 8 p.m. Monday. He set it to
go off at 9: 45 p.m. Then he went
to the beach, lie came hack and
the thing had not gone off, so h<
set it for 10:15 p.m. and went u,
Beaufort. He wont back at a quar
ter past midnight and it still hadn't
gone off, so when he went back
Tuesday morning to pick the con
trivancc up. Officer Condie invited
him to go down to the police sta
tion.
The officers knew that the de
vice in itself could not have done
much damage, but, not knowing
who had set the thing, they were
fearful of what it might imply.
Beaufort Boat Captain
Released Under Bond
? ? -A
Mrs. Louis Sutton Speaks
To Community Theatre
Mrs. Louis Sutton, Raleigh, spon
sor of the Raleigh Little Theatre,
reviewed the 20 years of the Ral
eigh theatre Wednesday night at
the meeting of the Carteret Com
munity Theatre. The theatre met
?it the reereation building on
Shepard Street, Morehead City.
Mrs. Sutton was affiliated with
the little theatre in Jackson, Miss.,
prior to moving to Raleigh. The
group there built a theatre and in
1938 the Raleigh troupers started
their own theatre building and am
phitheatre.
Most of the cost was paid by the
federal government through the
Federal Theatre and Works Prog
ress Administration.
The Raleigh Little Theatre start
ed with 36 people and is financed
largely through memberships as
well as sale of season tickets. Pa
tron memberships are $25. (Car
teret Community Theatre member
ships arc $5 each).
Goal Grows
In 1940, Mrs. Sutton said their
membership goal was 200. This
year it is 1.800. The Raleigh Thea
tre pays its director, technical di
rector and secretary. It functions
with a board of directors and ad
visory board, produces five plays
during the winter season and two
during the summer.
The theatre gave operas in Eng
lish prior to building its own thea
tre. Mrs. Sutton sang roles in
many of the productions. Because
of the successful operatic reper
toire, the group was featured in
an issue of the American Maga
zine in 1939.
Mrs. Sutton mentioned that a
present opera troupe claims to be
the first in the state to present
operas in English, but she says
the Raleigh Little Theatre holds
that distinction.
Mrs. Sutton has also appeared in
other theatre productions besides
operas. For the role of Bertie, in
See THEATRE, Page 8
Zoologist Comes
Back from Visit
To British Isles
Dr. Melbourne R. Carriker. as
sociate professor of zoology, De
partment of Zoology. University of
North Carolina Institute of Fish
eries Research, returned recently
from a three-week visit to the
British Isles.
While there, he attended the 15th
International Zoological Congress
and visited marine biological sta
tions in England, Scotland, and
Wales. At the Congress he pre- 1
sented a paper on his current re- j
search on oyster drills at the In- 1
stitute of Fisheries Research on- j
titled "Comparative Functional
Morphology and Evolution of the
Drilling Mechanism in Urnsalpinx
and Eupleura". He conferred with
European and British marine biol
ogists on research in the field of
marine biology. Some 1,500 scien
tists attended the Congress meet
ings.
Visits Laboratories
During his trip Dr. Carriker vis
ited the following marine labora
tories: Burnham - on - Crouch and
Plymouth in England, Mill|>ort in
southern Scotland, and Menai
Bridge and Conway in Wales.
The Burnham on ? Crouch and
Conway laboratories arc British
government laboratories concerned
principally with investigation of
nutrition, growth, distribution, i
mortality, and enemies of the Eu
ropean oyster and other commer
cial molfusks.
The principal oyster industry in
the British Isles is centered in
southeast England. During recent
years production of these oystera
has dropped to a low rate. Marine
biologists arc attempting to in
crease production in southeast
England and to extend commcrcial
oyster culture to western Scotland
and other parts of the British Isles.
To supplement production of the
European flat oyster, Portuguese
seed oysters arc imported to south
eastern England, planted out in
intertidal areas, and grown and
fattened for the market.
The Portuguese oyster repro
duces only to a very slight degree
in the cold British coastal waters,
and thus must be imported an
See CARRIKER, Page 8
Tide Table
(Eaitern Standard Time)
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, Aug. 15
8:05 a m. 2:13 a.m.
8:25 p it. 2:24 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 16
8:51 a.m. 2:56 a.m.
9:10 p.m. 3:10 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 17
9:41 a.m. 3:37 a.m.
10:01 p.m. 3:56 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 18
10:35 a.m. 4:20 a.m.
10:56 p.m. 4:44 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 19
11:32 a.m. 5:04 a.m.
11:53 p.m. 5:38 p.m.
'? Crewman Killed
Aboard Boat
* Marion L. Lewis
Jailed for Day
Capt. Marlon L. (Pinky) Lewis,
Beaufort, has been released under
bond in Cameron, La., where he
allegedly killed a Negro crewman
he had fired.
The shooting took place Sunday.
Authorities at Cameron say the
victim of the shooting, Tennyson
Mark, 30, Lufkin, Tex., came
aboard Lewis's menhaden boat
Sunday, apparently to argue with
the captain about firing him.
Captain Lewis told the fisherman
he wasn't going to talk to him and
he went to his quarters. But the
ex-crewman, a big 200-pounder,
followed him. Lewis picked up a
shotgun and ordered Mark to
leave, but the fisherman jumped
him. In the ensuing struggle, Mark
was shot.
Authorities said that the crew
man had been aboard the boat, the
Shoal Harbor, several times prior
to Sunday, to sec Captain Lewis.
Lewis is reported to have told
the sheriff of Cameron parish that
Mark was fired because he didn't
turn up when the boat went out.
The Shoal Harbor is owned by
the Gulf Menhaden Co., Tort Mon
mouth, N. J.
After the shooting, I*ewis was
booked on manslaughter and held
in jail one day, as required by
Louisiana law. His employer stood
his bond and has retained a law
yer for Lewis, according to infor
mation given Nelson Lewis, Beau
fort. brother of Captain Lewis.
Captain Lewis's family lives at
Ann and Fulford St. Captain Lewis,
who has resumed fishing at Cam
eron, has been captain of a men
haden boat for the past two years.
The Shoal Harbor fished out
of Beaufort during the winter.
Chest Clinic
Will be Monday
The chest clinic in the county
health department, Beaufort, will
start at 9 Monday morning.
Kx TB patients, contacts with TB
patients and suspects will be ex
amined by a chest specialist from
Eastern North Carolina sanatar
ium, announces Dr. Luther Ful
cher, health officer.
Private doctors may send pa
tients by calling the health de
partment, 2-5576. Patients already
scheduled for examination havo
been notified.
X-ray clinics at the health cen
ter are from 9 to 11 Tuesdays and
Thursadys. X-rays are $3 each if
the patient is able to pay. Dr. Ful
cher said.
Due to limited x-ray facilities
and the increased number of posi
tive TB tests and TB contacts, the
health department requests that
anyone wanting an x-ray make an
appointment.
Spraying to Start
Joe Mason, secretary of the Citi
zens Control Committee, Sea Level,
reported Wednesday that spraying
is being resumed. Because of dry
weather, mosquitoes have not been
numerous, but high tides are now
causing more eggs to hatch.
Traffic Stalled 'Far as Eye Can See'
At about 4:30 Sunday after
noon, Aug. 1, a sailboat blew for
the Atlantic Beach bridge to
open. Baca use the bridge Ik the
alow-opening awing type, the
bfi4Ket?A4or could sot tiftly
close it (or part of the auto traf
fic to paaa over, and itili re
open it in time to allow passage
of a small tug towing two
bargei.
The bridge i* to few (13 feet
verticil clearance) that even a
little tug requires its opening,
and automobile traffic was held
up for 23 minutes Just at the
time when homeward ? bound
weekender* leave the beach. As
Photo by Bob Simpson
far as the eye or the camera
could ace, traffic was backed up.
Bridge planners, unfortunately,
had not had the foresight to build
? higher bridge of the faster-op
er*Uug batcuie type.