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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES 47th YEAR. NO. 82. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES i MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS It Was Homecoming in Boaufort Photos by Bob Seymour The FHA float wis one of the most impressive units in the Beau- pie, Patsy Pake, Sara Gery, Cynthia Lou Dudley, Sandra Whltehurst, fort homecoming parade. Riding in the front are Russell Strnyh and Bobbie Jean Rush, Peggy Bradshaw, and Sheroa Wilkinson. Nancy PlUman, Miss FHA'er. Other girls on the float are Kay Tern Wilmington SBA Office to Close At 1 Saturday Clarence P. Moore, regional di rector tit the smgjl Bftsifltsa Ad. ministration, Richmond, Va., an nounced today that it is the inten tion to close its temporary disaster field office in Wilmington Saturday, Oct. 18. The disaster area covered by this office includes the counties of Brunswick, Carteret, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Pamlico, Craven, and Beaufort in North Carolina and Horry County in South Carolina. Individuals, business concerns, churches, charitable institutions, and othi'r nonprofit organizations in these counties arc eligible to be considered for SBA disaster loans if they have suffered tangible prop erty loss as a result of Hurricane Helene. Farmers, stockmen, and poultry raisers are not eligible for disaster loans from SBA. but should apply instead to the Farmers Home Ad ministration. Any interested in applying for a loan from SBA should contact this office immediately. It will be open through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The address is 321 Princess St., Wilmington. The tele phone number is Roger 3-7287. Applicants should determine what amount of their loss is covered by insurance and should also obtain an itemized estimate of the cost to repair or restore the property to its condition prior to the hurricane, before contacting this office. Growers to Meet B e r n i e Imming. Washington, president of the national United Fruit and Vegetable Association, will be guest speaker at the meet ing of the North Carolina branch Friday through Sunday at the Morehead Biltmore Hotel. Shell Scott, Weeksville, heads the state group. Mullet Festival is Set For Saturday Afternoon The once - delayed Swansboro Mullet Festival will be conducted in Swansboro Saturday afternoon and night. The original date for the festival, Sept. 27, was the day hurricane Helene visited. Except for the date, all plans for the festival remain the same, Ma yor M. N. Lisk reports. A big pa rade, featuring the Swansboro High School band and the Second Division Band, USMC, Camp Le Jeune, will kick off the festival at 1 p.m. Morehead City and Jack sonville will have floats in the parade. The festivities will move to the city dock at 2:30 for water activi ties. There will be boat trip* and a pirate show. The Marine band will play march selections at the dock. ; At 3:30 p.m. the gueats will b? invited to the community building for refreshments and visiting. A mullet supper will be served at the Kay-TyndaU athletic field at the high school at 5:30. A fireworks display is scheduled for 7:30. A sock dance in the high school gym from ( to 12 will con clude the festival. Wary Linda Howard will be crowned Festival Queen during the dahce. The committee members in charge of the festival preparations are: Mayor Lisk, chairman, Mrs. E. W. Woollerton, Alton Earl Jooes, J. P. Tyndall, M. T. Ma nets, A. D. Ennett Jr., Mrs. Louise Passingham, C.W.O. Kelley, Ver non Taylor, Leslie Edmonds, Rob ert Passingham, Cdr. Tyre Moore and John Taylor. Riding the senior clan float In the feeanfort kome coming parade Friday afternoon prior to the Bean fort-Farm ville game are Bonny Moore, Gilet Loftln, Diane Garner, Joyce Sewell and Ann Taylor. Tke parade circled from the school, down Front Street, back to Ann and returned to the school. Red Cross Spends $5,000 Here to Aid Storm Victims By CHARLES C. WILLIS Acting Red Cross Chairman Carteret County We were not prepared for Hur ricane Helens. The Carteret County Chapter of the American Red Cross is the local unit through which Red CroM services are provided. The Red Cross is for the most part run by, operated by, and financed by vol unteers from top to bottom, and particularly so in Carteret County. [ Therefore, most of the work of the Red Cross is done by volunteers. Red Cross services are highly 1 dependent upon the time, interest, and support of the volunteer. The bulk of the Red Cross work ii not done by paid workers and cannot be done by a handful of paid work ers. They can give some guidance and help, but we, the volunteers, know our own communities and its needs. The Carteret County Chapter is not any one person, place, thing, or building. The Carteret Chapter includes all of us and extends to all areas of the county and has a place for all of us as a volunteer worker or committee chairman. During the emergency period caused by Hclene the Red Cross provided food for about 550 people. Roughly 400 of these people had left their homes to seek safety in the shelters. In addition, an esti Tide Table (Eastern Standard Time) TMei at the Beaafort Bar HIGH LOW Taeiday, Oct 14 i:56 a.m. 2:4S a.m. 9:24 p.m. 3:24 p.m. Wedneiday, Oct IS 9:50 a.m. 3:35 a.m. 10:22 p.m. 4:14 pra. Tharsday, Oct 1< 10:47 a.m. 4:23 a.m. 11:22 p.m. 5:05 p.m. Friday, Oct IT 11:48 a.m. 5:14 a.m. ? ? 1:03 p.m. mated 100 volunteer workers from Red Cross, Civil Defense, and other private or government agen cies were served. Two Red Cross employees were made available to Carteret County Chapter on Saturday. Sept. 27, one to work from Beaufort and the other from Morehead City. They were here to help us do our Job not to do it for us. A survey of damage was carried out over the county on Sunday fol lowing Helene. The decision was made to set up Red Cross Disaster headquarters for rehabilitation as sistance in the courthouse annex in Beaufort. Three caseworkers have been working out of this of fice. Their day is spent working with the families who have applied to Red Croas for help with disas ter-caused needs. To date, Red Cross has received 125 applications for assistance, See RED CROSS, Page ? Lions Club Makes $250 On Whit* Can* Driv* The Morehead City Lions Club netted about 1250 on its white cane sale Saturday. Lions publicity chairman O. N. Allred estimates memberships sold in the North Carolina Association for the Blind at (100. Last year the total white cane and memberships came to $300, some $50 lesa than this year. Tak ing part In Saturday's sale were Elmer Watson, Owens Frederick, James Crow* and CUB Edwards. Morehead Garment Firm Buys Plant at Abbeville , S.C. Persons in Beach Area Will Meet Next Wednesday ? Board Thanks Those Who Helped in Storm ? Legislative Committee Will Meet Oct. 25 Persons living in the area be tween the northern limits of At lantic Beach and Bogue Sound are invited to meet at 8 o'clock Wed nesday night, Oct. 22, with Atlan tic Beach town officials at the j town hall. The beach board set the date at its meeting Friday morning. To be discussed at the meeting will be improvements to be made in the beach areas, advancements, and I town growth. The board passed two resolu- ] tions, one commending police, Civil Defense personnel, the Red Cross the governor, firemen, and the highway patrol for help during j Helene, and the other requests that a car ferry be established between Cedar Island and Ocracoke. The board authorized a letter t? be written to Mrs. W. B. Godwin, informing her that the board wants no further delay in compliance with building regulations. A "shed" on property she owns waa put up without a building permit, the board says, and further violates ordinances in that there is already one home on the lot. Chief of police Bill Moore re ported that A. B. Cooper, mayor, M. G. Chalk, town clerk, and he acted as hosts at a recent supper for CD auxiliary policemen. The ?upper waa given to express ap preciation to the auxiliary polkr pointed at the September meeting of the board, has been asked to meet with the town board at 2 p.m. Saturday. Oct. 25, at the town hall. Bills that should be intro See BEACH BOARD. Page 2 Grain Loaders Rise Skyward Work Is aearing completion on Ike two graJa loading towers at the Morekead City Port but they won't be ready by Oct. 17, aa hoped. The first shipment of grain using the loaders is expected to be Oct. 24. Significance of the installation la evident in the predictloa that the grain loader! will make the port ahow an operating profit for the coming year. Mayor Dill Gives Opening Address At Municipalities Meeting Sunday Girl Scouters To Canvass Town Mothers wearing trefoil tags will solicit funds for the Girl Scout drive Friday In Morehead City and surrounding areas. Calico Colony, Bonham Heights, and Mansfield Park, announces Dr. R. O. Bar num, chairman. The funds will help make up the 1959 budget of the Girl Scout Coun cil of Coastal Carolina with which this county's troops are affiliated. The finance committee of the council has drawn up a 19S9 bud get involving $30,000 to provide services to the districts and neigh borhoods. One service is training for all adults active in the Girl Scout program. Carteret County's share, $2,000, has been determined by the coun ty's percentage of girl members compared to the percentage in the remaining five counties also af filiated with the Coastal Carolina Council. Morehead City's Girl Scouting has increased from two troops in 1955-56 to 13 troops active at the present time. This is the first Girl Scout finance drive held ia More head City In several years. Canvassing in Beaufort and At lantic is in progress now. Committee Seeks Funds to Meet Cost Of Yule Lighting The Morchead City Merchant! committee this week ii collecting funds to finance the Christmas street lighting program. Eighteen hundred dollars ii needed. Membera of the committee so liciting funds are Earl Lewis, Wal ter Morris, Henry White, Cbartei Willis, Oscar Allred, Ruius Butner and Joe DuBois. Lighting the main street for the holidays must be financed by the public and the businessmen. Per sons who are not contacted for a contribution are a eked to can a member of the committee and be will pick op your doMtlca ' Mayor George Dill, Morehead City, president of the North Caro lina League of Municipalities, gave the address at the opening session of the league Sunday afternoon at the Robert E. Lee Hotel, Winston Salem. Mayor Dill spoke on his experi ences during the past year as pres ident of the league. As president, he represented this state at the American Municipalities Associa tion meeting last winter at San Francisco. There he met mayors from towns and cities of all sizes from all parts of the country. He told his audience that as a result of those contacts, he has concluded that problems In all towns, large and small ?re essentially the same. To illustrate his point, he recall ed an incident in the War Between the States when a group of Con federate soldiers was captured by some boys from Illinois. One of the Confederate soldiers walked up to his captors and said, "We'uns from down South never seen you boys from Illinois. You don't look much different from us!" The mayor cited the following three problems as mutual among all municipalities: overcrowding in housing areas, traffic control, and local financing at the level of the people (tax revenue). The meeting closes today with luncheon and an address by Gov. Luther Hodges. Attending the meet ing are Mrs. Dill, Mrs. J. S. Mc Lohon, town treasurer, and D. J. Hall, commissioner. Deputy Sheriff Bell Requests Aid in Hunt The "men most wanted" now by the sheriff's department are three or four who last Wednesday after noon wantonly shot up two boys' bikes and then fired toward the boys. Deputy sheriff Bobby Bell ear nestly requests that anyone who may know of ? "bluish-green old model car" in the Morehead City area, get in touch with him im mediately. In that kind of car several white men drove on to a clay field on the Crab Point Road, and terror ized Chester Pittman, 11, and Kilby Willis, 7. The boys live in the vicinity of the Morehead Block and Tile Co. According to deputy Bell, they had ridden their bikes east on the Crab Point Road to the field where there was a big mudhole. They had got ten -off their bikes and went to the mudhole to play with their boaf?. While there, the men drove on to the field, raced the car around, then got out, and with rifles shot the front fender nearly off the Pitt man boy'a bike and shot tire* of both bikes full of boles. Then they fired toward the boys, scaring them so much that the boy* raa into the woods and hid. With that, the men got hack in their bluish green car, laughing uproariously, and drove off. The boya finally came out of the wooda, got their bikes and pushed them home. They told their parenta and Mr. Pittman notified deputy Bell. The boys could not give a full deacription of the car. Deputy Bell aaya, "I'd sure give anything to know the liccnae number of that car, or anything that might lead to identifying it or ita owner." Norman T. Wads Wins $250 Suggestion Award Norman T. Wade, Morehead City, received the top beneficial suggestion award o < $250 at Cherry Point recently. Mr. Wade suggest ed a change in method of screen ing aeronautical parti for salea potential. Other county residents receiving awardi or special recognition fol low: Jeaae D. Morton. William H. Singleton, Lecil II. Smith and Ed ward G. McKinley, all of Morehead City; Shirley G. Pake, Williston; Evern C. McLawhorh and Letter H. Harbough, Newport; Blakely S. Pood, DavU, and William GU chrUt, Beaufort. w (Yin. j. W. Jackson Heads New Firm ? Owners Now Operate Three Shirt Plants Owners of the Morehoad City Garment Co., Mrs. J. W. Jackson, Truman Kemp, and Abe Silverman, with Allen Appel of New York, fcave purchased The Shirtmaster Co. Inc.. Abbeville, S. C. Announcement of the purchase van made in Morehead City yes terday by Mrs. Jackson, who will jervc as president of the newly-ac lutred firm. The Morehead City Garment Co. ilso operntes the Lilllngton Gar ment Co. at Lillington, N. C. All plants are affiliated with the leaver Shirt Co. of New York. The Shirtmaster Co. went into ?eceivership in January and a few v'eeks later closed its doors. Mrs. 'ackaon said yesterday that nego iations to take over the plant have wen in progress since April. The new owners are renting the Former plant from the Abbeville bounty Development Board This .jroup of businessmen purchased he plant for $43,000 and has reno vated it at a cost of $43,000. The new corporation has a 10 year lease on it with option to re new. Mrs. Jackson and Mr. Kemp, Morehead City, general manager of all three plants, will be making frequent trips to Abbeville during the next several weeks in prepara tion for opening the plant sometime ji November. Mrs. Jackson said yesterday that it is tentatively planned to manu facture the new line of shirts "Guys 'n Dolls" at the Abbeville plant. The "Guys and Dolls" products are matching man and woman's shirts. When the South Carolina plant goei into production, Jules Peters, president of the Beaver Shirt Co., and vice-president of Shirtmaster, estimated that with the two plants IB North Caroirha T^IOO doien shirts a week will be manufactured. Cars Collide i On Causeway Two cars collided on the Bcau fort-Morehead causeway at 8:10 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of highway TO and the road to Radio Island. Hospitaliied was Geneva O'Neal, 26, More bead City, who is suffering from chest and arm injuries. She was In a 19SS Chevrolet driven by Elmer G. Midgettc, Oc racoke. Also In the car waa Faye Goodwin, Beaufort. Neither she nor the driver was injured. Driving the other car, a 1957 Oldsmobile, was John W. Duncan, 202 Marsh St., Beaufort. Midgette waa headed east and Duncan west when, according to patrolman J. W. Sykes, Duncan cut over in front of Midgette, causing a near head on collision. Duncan has been charged with driving drunk. Damage to the Chevrolet waa estimated at about $400 and damage to the Olda $500. Utility Failures fill Weekend Power, water and phone troubles plagued resident* of the county over the weekend. From 5:23 a.m. to 1:03 a.m. Sunday there was no power at Vol ney Felt Mill. Morehead City, be cause a pole was being replaced at the mill. From 5:19 to 1:01 a.m. the Jef ferson Hotel, the Morehead draw bridge, state port, Esso terminal and customers close to the bridge were without power. From 319 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. the 19th to 21st street area in the vicinity o ( Bridges Street and Crab Point was without power. There was another outtage in that same section from 7:52 a.m. to t:01 a.m., all due to work on replacing a pole. A regulator in the Beaufort sub station went out at 7 a.m. yester day morning. It was replaced at 7:30 a.m. Affected was all of Beau fort and customers east to the North River bridge. Persons in Calico Colony, Mora head City, were without water for several hours Sunday afternoon due to a leak In the water line on the Crab Point Road near Eme line Place. A* tor the phooes? there's al ways trouble with tham.
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