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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES "" 47th YEAR, NO. 89. TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1958 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Newport Methodists Will Enter New Church Sunday The congregation of St. James Methodist Church, Newport, will worship in its new sanctuary for the first time this Sunday. The Rev. Ralph L. Fleming Jr., pastor, will preside at the morning and evening services. The Rev. J. H. Waldrop Jr., of Clinton, former pastor of the church, will preach the sermon at the 11 a.m. service. The Rev. W. W. Clark Jr., Ocra coke, will preach at the 7 p.m. service and will assist in the ser vice of Holy Communion. Special music will be provided by the church choir under the di rection of Mrs. Harold Chartley, with Miss Edith Lockey as organ ist. The building, of contemporary design, was constructed at a cost of $67,000, completely furnished. The sanctuary joins the educa tional building of the church that was constructed in 1954. In addition to the sanctuary, which has a seating capacity of 280, the new building contains a choir room, processional room and pastor's study. Present church members have been unable to establish the exact date of organization of St. James Church. Old records show that one of its first members, E. S. Perkins, joined in 1837. Before a church was erected, the j congregation met in the "old acad emy". In June 1886, the church now being used was completed. At the laying of the cornerstone, it is known that Sarah A. Perkins and Dr. Arendell, from Morehead City, were present. The first pas tor in that building was N. M. Jurney. Land for the church site was given by Mrs. Ann Pigott in 1878. Lumber for the first church was donated by members who also did much of the labor. Construction of the church began in 1879. "Preacher Puckett", presiding elder (today he would be called district superintendent), laid the cornerstone: In the stone was placed a Bible and several other books. The first sermon preached in the church wa? by a layman, Dr. E. L. Perkins. He was the village doctor and great grandfather of Mrs. W. V. Garner and Miss Elsie Elliott. He was superintendent of the Sunday School until he retired. There were seven years of dif ferent preachers before the com ing of the first circuit preacher, who was a Mr. Abernathey. There was no organ for several years. John Mann led the singing with do accompaniment. The first organ cost $200 and was bought with money raised by church members' selling cakes, having festivals and making fancy quilts. Bert Garner was the first organist. Members of the building com mittee for the new sanctuary to be occupied Sunday are E. F, Car raway, chairman; Wilbur V. Gar ner, Mrs. D. Ira Garner, Lloyd N. Garner, Mrs. Parker Guthrie, Charles Hill, Mr. Fleming, C. H. Lockey, Gerald Merrill, R. K. Mon tague, Milton C. Warren and Mrs. Ida Reynolds. The Rev. Ralph Fleming fir. . St James istor Photos toy Bob Seymour This is the front of the new St. James Methodist Church, Newport. Elks Begin Assembling Here For Three-Day State Session Dutch Crewmen Arrested on Two CountsYesterday Nicolaas Palte, 19, and Mattheus C. Vcrmeulcn, 21, crewmcn aboard the Kinderdyk, were represented in superior court yesterday by L. J. Flatted, of the Holland-Ameri can line, after they were charged with assault and theft of a car. The two defendants sailed with their ship yesterday at 6 a.m. from Morchcad City port. According to patrolman J. W. Sykcs, they threw Elijah H. Lewis, Shcpard Street, Morehead City, out of his car, then went off with it. The car was wrecked at 1 a.m. yesterday on highway 70 in front of Dr. Luther Fulchcr's home. It was a 1954 Mercury coupe. Lewis appeared later at the Morehead City police station and said his car had been stolen. He said that he had picked up in front of the Jefferson Hotel two hitchhikers from the Dutch ship. En route to Beaufort, he related, they started to "give him a bad time", then one of the boys hit him over the head and took the car. At 5:30 yesterday morning pa trolman Sykcs and Lt. Joe Smith of the Morehead City police force found the two walking across the Beaufort bridge toward Morehead City. The boys said that each gave Lewis 50 cents to let them drive his car, and that they didn't hit, him. Because they couldn't speak' English very well, it wasn't easy, the patrolman said, to get their itory. After conferring with Robert Rouse, solicitor, who is in town this week, and contacting Mr. Plat teel, the officers gave the two per mission to sail with their ship. The State Highway Commission will hold public hearings in More head City at the fisheries building Nov. 20-21. County Board Will Meet at 10 Monday County commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. Monday at the courthouse. They did not meet this past Monday, the regular meeting date, because it was the day before election. Moses Howard, chairman of the county board, invites all who hoped to meet with the board last week. On the board's agenda is the proposal to borrow $2 million for schools. The board has al ready indicated its willingness to submit the matter to the vot ers. Fernie Willis Named by Board Fernie Willis, Markers Island, was appointed to the Markers Is land School committee Monday to (ill the unexpired term of David Ycomans. Mr. Ycomans was elect ed Tuesday as a county commis sioner and thus disqualified him self as a school committee mem ber, according to II. L. Joslyn, county superintendent of schools. Named to attend the North Caro lina State School Board Associa tion meeting yesterday at Chapel Hill were Robert Safrit Jr., chair man of the county education board; W. B. Allien, board mem ber; Dr. A. F. Chestnut, W. C. Carlton, Gerald Murdoch and Mr. Joslyn. The board received a request to sell the acre of land on which the Merrimon school building was at one time situated. Board members also discussed the proposed school building pro gram. The board met Monday morning in the education office in the courthouse annex. Named CD Fire Chief Elbert Pitt man, Davis, has been appointed Civil Defense fire chief for the county, John Valentine, county CD director, announced yes terday. t Registration for the fall meeting of North Carolina's Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks started at 3 p.m. yesterday at the Morehead Biltmorc Hotel. During the three-day meeting, Elks and their wives will hear Horace R. Wisely, Salinas, Calif., grand exalted ruler of the order, will enjoy a clambake and hear the Cherry Point Marine band. Today's events start at 8 this morning with a grand exalted ruler's breakfast. Schedule for U* rest of the day follows: 9:30 a.m.? Opening business ses sion 10? Tour of historical points for the ladies Noon? Luncheon 1:30 p.m. ? Business session; fashion show for the ladies 3 p.m.? Boat trip on the Danco 6 p.m.? Cocktail hour 7:30 p.m. ? Banquet 9:30 p.m. ? Dance Saturday 9 a.m.? Final business session 10 a.m.? Concert by'the Cherry Point Marine band 11 a.m. ? Ocean pier fishing 5:30 p.m.? Clambake With the exception of fishing and boat riding, all events arc sche duled for the Morchead Biltmorc. ESC Office To Move July 1 The Employment Security Com mission office on 4th Street, Morc head City, will move July 1 into a new building on Evans Street, several doors west of the fire sta tion. Mrs. Julia Tenney, manager of the ESC office, says the building will be built by Roy Poole, Kinston contractor. The lot on which the building will be located has been purchased from Mrs. Jesse Bell, 807 Evans St. Work on the building is expected to start next week. The structure will consist of two units, with the ESC occupying one. The ESC will lease the building for a five-year period, beginning July 1, the day after the present lease expires. The ESC office is now located in the Jefferson Coffee shop build ing. lib view ihswa [be ritM. In 1IM aad Ike m luduiy wfcick It at the left Telegraph Company Asks FCC to Okay Changeover Morehead City-Beaufort Lodge And CARTERET COUNTY Welcome Tar Heel Elks to The Heart of the Coast Democrats Win, JP Proposal Defeated t artrret voters joined the pa rade of Democratic-minded folks throughout the nation Tuesday and returned all local incumbent Demo crats to office. On the basis of in complete returns, county voters also rejected the constitutional amendment giving justices of the peace more power. The proposed amendment took a shellacking state - wide. Returns from 1.189 precincts of the state's 2,083 showed 152,511 votes against the jaypec amendment and 88,842 for it. Senator Everett Jordan and Con gressman Graham Bardcn were re turned to office. All state Demo cratic candidates, attorney general Scawell, chief justice Winbomc, associate supreme court judges and superior court judges were elected. Sheriff Hugh Salter polled the most votes on the Democratic ticket, 3,961, according to unoffi cial returns from the county's 27 precincts. He was closely fottpwed hy A. II. Jama*, clerk of superior (Wurt, with 3,934. Moses Howard, county commis sioner, outdistanced fellow Demo cratic candidates for commissioner, with 3,869 votes. j C. Z. Chappcll and U. E. Swann of the County Board of Elections were still tallying votes yesterday. The board is not expected to meet until some time today to canvass the votes. They could not meet at the scheduled time yesterday be cause the tally was not finished. To further complicate matters, county candidates without opposi tion were not listed on the precinct tally sheets, thus several precincts did not report votes for Lambert .Morris, judge of recorder's court; Wiley Taylor Jr., solicitor; or Philip Ball, surveyor. Any pollholders who have not re ported those votes are requested to get in touch with the county board of elections immediately, phone PA 8-3105. Portsmouth's votes got in early this time. They were brought in by plane Wednesday. Ten Democrats on Portsmouth voted a straight ticket. Republicans failed to get any recogition there. Unofficial returns from all 27 pre cincts show the vote for local candi dates as follows: County commissioner: Moses Howard, 3,869, Harrell Taylor 3,730, Skinner Chalk Jr. 3,845, David Yco mans, 3,853, Roy T. Garner 1,048, Jesse Finer 860, John E. Lewis 818, Luther Smith 864, and John Miller 942. For Sheriff: Hugh Salter, 3,961, A. B. (Tom) Garner 1,002; superior court clerk, A. H. James 3,934, W. A. Mace 849, for register of deeds, Odell Merrill 3,783, Ray G. Lewis 968; for coroner, David Munden 3,591; Dr. F. E. Hyde 1,317. Unofficial returns from 25 pre cincts: for judtfe of recorder's court, Lambert Morris, 3,656; for solicitor, Wiley Taylor Jr., 3,849; and surveyor, Philip Ball, 3,655. Unofficial returns from 17 pre cincts : For solicitor, fifth solicitorial dis trict, Robert Rouse Jr., 2,646; for state senator, Luther Hamilton*. 2,695 and J. O. Simpkins, 2,461. For general assembly, D. G. Bell, 2,439, Grayden Paul. 482; for US senator, Senator Jordan, 1,891, Clarke, 315; for congressman, Gra ham A. Barden, 1,842, Dunn, 28 2. Unofficial returns, 10 precincts, jay pec amendment: for 236, against 601. Election Sidelights: ? Beaufort out-voted Morehead City again, but by a close margin. According to unofficial tallies, 1,205 votes were cast in Beaufort and 1,179 in Morehead City. ? A. B. (Tom) Garner, Republi can candidate for sheriff, carried three precincts, Davis, his home precinct of Newport, and Williston, polling more votes than any other local Republican on the ticket. ? Marshallberg, usually a Repub lican stronghold, went Democratic. ? According to old-time election war horses, Boguc, usually a Re publican precinct, also went Demo cratic. ? Two of the opposing candidates for county commissioner are dis tant kin, Gaston Smith, victorious Democrat, and Luther Smith, de feated Republican candidate. Both live at Atlantic. ? Official tabulated returns will appear in Tuesday's NEWS-TIMES. Heads Host Lodge Exalted raler at Ike Marehetf CHy Beaafort lodfr. arhtek Is boat I* the (Ute Eiki cooreatiaa this weekend, Is Jiaes D. rotter, 1 Firm Hopes to Operate As Agency in Beaufort Failing to obtain the town's blessing in establishing an agency station in Beaufort, Western Union Telegraph Co. has applied to the Federal Communications Commission to operate from the Earl Mason office, 432 Front Street, and cloac its present office. Western Union, in its FCC appli" cation, points out that cost of op erating the Beaufort office far ex ceeds revenue. Hours at the pro posed agency office will be the same as at present, daily from >:30 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. except Sunday when the office will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At present, the Western Union of fice in Beaufort is "class 1". The new office will be "class 9". Officials of the Western Union company appeared before the Beaufort town board earlier this year and asked the board's ap proval of closing the present office The board refused, as it did several years ago when the same proposal was placed before it. In the FCC application, Western Union says that local operating ex penses in Beaufort amounted to 175 per cent of revenue during the 12 month period ending with August 1958. The application says further, "There is no prospect in the for seeable future of any appreciable increase in the volume of traffic at Beaufort and alnce entirely aatia factory telegraph service to meet the limited requirements of the community can be provided through a Claas 9 teleprinter-op erated office, continuance of the Class 1 office would be wasteful and economically unsound from the viewpoint of good management." Telegram delivery service com parable to that provided at the class 1 office will be available at the agency office, the application points out. Thia delivery ia by taxi. , V Telegraph service will not be dis rupted during the change. Western Union says. Persons interested in the service have been notified by the FCC to file a statement with the FCC by Nov. 23, as to why the present tele graph office should or should not be discontinued. Grand Jury Returns Report Members of the grand Jury re turned their report Wednesday afternoon. It stated that 19 billi and one presentment were consid ered. True bills were returned in 13 in dictments, not a true bill in five, and on one indictment there was no action because there were no witnesses to give the grand Jury any information. Tom Campen, Beaufort RFD, went before the grand jury to pre sent a matter on which he felt there should be legal action, but the Jurors felt there was not enough evidence to take the matter to court. The Jurors reported that the clerk of court told them all justices of the peace filed their reports on time. The Jail and Newport prison camp were reported In excellent condition. Foreman of the grand jury was John Connor. Baaufort Jaycees Plan Work Detail for Sunday Hubert King, chairman of the | Beaufort Jaycees building com mittee, announces that there will | be a work detail at the Scout build ing at 2 p.m. Sunday. Jaycees will I repair damage to the building | caused by the recent storms. Last Sunday only four Jaycees showed up for work. They were Mr. King, club president Guy Smith Jr., publicity chairman George M. Thomas and Merlon Bullock. Tide Table Tides at the Beaafart Bar (Eastern Standard Time) HIGH LOW Friday, Nov. 7 4:13 a.m. 10:48 a.m. 4:35 p.m. 11:07 p.m. Saturday, Nov. I 3:12 a.m. 11:42 a.m. 5:36 p.m. 11:57 p.m. Suday, Nov. I t:07 a.m. 12:35 a.m. 6:31 p.m. Moaday, Nov, 16 6:58 a.m. 12:46 a.m. 7:23 p.m. 1:27 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11 7:47 a.m. 1:38 a.m. 8:14 p-m. 213 P-IO-I ? Chamber Board Meets Monday With Bus Official ? Businessman Offers To be Bus Agent ? Chamber Members Will Meet Nov. 20 R. C. O'Bryan, traffic manager for Seashore Transportation Co., attended a meeting of the board of the Horehead City Chamber o t Commerce Monday night. Mr. O'Bryan gave a history of the bus service between New Bern and Beaufort. He pointed out that the company has improved service on the run even though revenues have dropped. He said that the only way the company could keep from los ing more money was to close the Morehead City bus station. W. C. Wilkin*, who operates Morehead Motor Parts across from the municipal building, said that be would like to be agent for the bus company. He said be had room in his building for packages and freight and a place for passengers to stand out of the weather. The chamber directors discussed the situatioo with Mr. O'Bryan and Mr. Wilkins st some length but took no action. Chamber manager J. A. DuBois reported on official correspondence carried on by his office during the past month. He said that he had been invited to Washington to meet with officers of Caribbean Cruise Lines to plan a June i cruise of the Arosa Sun from Morehead City. He read another request, this one from Ed Cherry, manager of the southeastern division of the US Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cherry asked for representatives to a chamber leaders' indoctrina tion conference at Raleigh Tues day. Mr. DuBoisc reported that he had received a copy of a resolu tion from the Goldsboro Cham ber of Commerce requesting prompt action on a Cedar Island Ocracoke car ferry. A letter from T. W. Morse, sup erintendent of state parks, was read. Mr. Morse said that he was considering the chamber request for free camping grounds at Fort Macon. Mr. DuBols reported that he has initiated correspondence with the weather bureau in an effort to get ? weather bureau station for the port of Morehead City. Plana for a Nov. 20 dinner meet ing at the Morehead Biltmore Ho tel were discussed. The program will take the form of a panel dis cussion with George II. McNeill acting aa moderator. Chamber committee chairmen will be panel ists. Fred Webb of Fred Webb Inc., the new grain-loading enterprise, will attend the meeting and discus* the grain operations at the port. Tickets for the dinner are S2 each. Tbe meeting will be for chamber members only. It will begin at 1:45 p.m. The terms of three members of the board of directors will end this year and hew directors will be elected. Directors whose terms ex pire are P. H. Geer Jr., Walter Morris and George Whittle. Other directors are Dick Par ker, Bud Dixon, Shelby Freeman, Henry White, Rufus Butner, t. M. Davis and W. B. Chalk. J. R. San ders la chamber treasurer. Pontiac, Pickup Truck CotlkU in Beaufort Willie A. Shoap, Beaufort, driv ing a pickup truck, and Carl Willi*, Harkers Island, driving a 1958 Pon tiac, collided in the 100 block of Orange Street Saturday morning. Beaufort Police Chief Guy Sprin gie Investigated the accident and estimated damage to the track at >23 and to the car at $80. Thert were BO chart**
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