$21 Million In Construction Hfoik Under Way #<849 Capobort Housing Units Co Up Near Base ? Major Building Goes On Aboard Station By S/ST.T. JACK BAIBD Cherry Point? A $21 million con struction and repair program is in full awing here, U. (jg) James E. McNeill, USN, assistant resident officer in charge of construction, disclosed today. More than half the total amount, (12.8 million, is being spent on tbe erection of 849 Capehart Housing units for dependents of military personnel. All of the housing units are located outside the confines of the Air Station. On base construction win center mostiy in the Marine Aircraft (iroup-24 area where a new group headquarters, supply warehouse, rapid jet refueler system, and four hangars arc being built. The group headquarters will move across the street from its present site on "A" Street into the $133, M7 building early in 1959. According to Lieutenant McNeill, the building will be completed Jan. IS, provided cold weather doesn't hamper construction. The struc ture will have 149 by 32 feet of floor space and will house 17 offi ces, a conference room, and a briefing room. The entire building will be air-conditioned and will be steam heated. A $305,000 group supply ware house is also under construction now beside the new headquarters building. Across the street, pillars outline the site pi one hangar, steel beams frame another, wood en pegs mark off the area to be occupied by the third, and the fourth hangar is almost ready for use. Built at a coat of $1,629,67?. four hangars will include concrete flight aprons, taxi ways, parking areas, and office space. A rapid jet re fueler system will be built adjacent to the hangars at a coat of $1,870, ?48. Some $50,000 will be spont to im prove the station theatre's air con ditioning system. Structural re pairs, costing $22,366, will be made on the station (trill hall aad com bat training pool. And, the station laundry's interior and exterior are being painted for a reported $7,823. Hurricane repairs are also being made to roofs and siding in Slocum Village, Ft. Macon, Hancock Vil lage, and various air station build ings. Several projects at the Ma rine Corps Air Facility, New River, N. C., also are included in the construction and repair program. Pasture lands occupy one fourth the area o f Illinois, a major pro ducer of livestock. h*AXJN9 an. J. M. DAVIS T?UK0 Product* ??ntorfQtr The Civttans are going to bury items from tbe Centennial in a time capsule in front of the Morehead City municipal build ing at 3:30 Thursday afternoon. Hare Miss Bonnie Fish, Miss Morehead City of 1968, poses with items which will go into the square vault, shown right. m tm. The vault has been supplied by George W. Dill, mayor and fu neral director, who obtained it from a casket company. In SO years, when il is to be dug up, it will be as good as new, the cas ket company declares. Burying a time capsule is merely a stunt. At one time it was thought that Photo by Roy Eubanks money could be raised to pay off the Centennial debt by having persons pay to put items in the capsule. But this idea was dis carded. The youngest children of mem bers of the Centennial steering committee will be responsible for opening the capsule in 2008. J& > Chilula Aids Tug The Ml C. Moran, tog It Ml. mrum to fi under way Hill after the ChUula retrieved the Fart Abb*, liberty ahlp at right The toe had loat tke liberty ihlp when the towing hawser parted off Hat teraa Saturday. IUSCG Photo). The CoMt Guard cutter Chllula retrieved a liberty (hip Saturday which had parted from its tug, the Julia C. Moran, in a north eait gale. The wire hawser brake off Cape Hatteras and the ship, Fort Aftne, drifted to a point approxi mately a hundred miles east of Frylhg Pan lightship. Chilula made contact with it at 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Captain Stewart, of the Julia C. Moran, uid to the Coast 4 Guard, "I am sure glad to see you people!" The Chilula put a crew aboard the Fort Anne to cut free the old towing cable and ran a now hawser Irom the ship to the tug. The Moran and ita tow then proceeded north to Baltimore. It waa coming from Wilmington, "N. C. School Lunch II I ' uJ Menus Listed Morthead City School Today: Cheeseburgers, tossed salad. earn and butter beans, baked apple, milk. Wednesday: Beet-vegetable soup, two kinds of sandwiches, crackers, c?k?. QM-half orange, milk. than**: Turkey with dressing and gravy, cranberry aauce, gar den peas, eandsed yams, hot bis cuit*, butter, Mia with whipped cream and cherries, Christmas candy, milk. Newport School Taday: Beef and potatoes, sug ared beeta, onions, green cabbage, cheese strips, peaches and cookies, milk. Wednesday: Lima beans, tomato ?oup, cabbage-carrot -ralain salad, peanut butter and Jelly sandwich, chocolate cream cookies, milk. nwrsday: Baked turkey, dress ing, gitalet gravy, green peaa, hot roBs, cranberry aauce, ice cream, cookies, milk. The Mildred, a (taking weal, ran agrowMl north of the Iwuifwt Wn Friday afternoon. Ceait Guardsmen EN/1 Ronald Quidley and Mf/S " nr viae the laying of boae to tbe fire and was busy through the night. He left the fire about IS minutes before he waa found. The cause of death tfas said to be a heart attack. The entire Beaufort Fire Depart ment turned out to serve aa hon orary pallbearers at Mr. Duncan's funeral Saturday afternoon. Guardsmen Fight Fire Coast Guardsmen who helped fight the fire in Beaufort Friday morning waie EMC Earl Sells, EN/3 Name SilliUn, ETM Ann uel Wiersteiner, TN/3 frank fain son, SN Aulcie Farmer, SN Lewis McLain and SA Albert Gillikin. They manned I 1,000 gtilw per minute pump drawing water from Taylor'a Creek. I Set Hie Compact '53 Rambler Only Buy in the Low -Priced field With moat car prim way up. rt^ilTUl rfiplining WMlber-?y*'ba?tiii( LEWIS-PRICE, INC 1710 -Mto. Cmrt (Centlnaed Inm I) follow: Russell P. Kossm an, Ralph L. Wilson, Julius N. Jones and Norman L. Coulson, speeding; William I. McConnell, no driver license; Buaice Jones, possession of a small quantity of aon-taxpaiit whiskey; and Thomas A. Tee!, im proper use of dealers plates, fol lowing too close and failing to re pert an accident. Theee whe paid coats follow : Isaac Twiddy, James G. Sadaski, Raymond Lee Baugh, Robert K. Barnett, Alvern R. Kuehl, Ronald A. Goff. Hoyt Lee and Jospey T. Beasley, speeding James R. Squires, improper passing; William E. Foster, fail ure to report aa accident; Harold Jones and Cicero Jones, violation of fishing laws. Gene C. Norris, no license and driving on the wrong side of the road; Clayton Pittman Jr., care less and reckless driving. George T. Martin, running a stop ?i?n; Archie Fuiford, Charles B. Finer and Moses Johnson, public drunkenness; David G. Jeroff, al lowing an unlicensed person to drive; and Leslie M. Webb, no license, speeding and passing on a marked curve Twe defendants paid one half coats. They were Susan K. Jeroff, , driving without a license, and Clarence Tootle Jr., improper lights. Judge Lambert Morris ordered Bobby B. Goodwin to have a gov ernor installed on his car and have it set for 43 mph. Goodwin, charged with speeding 70 mph, was found guilty of speeding 45 in a 35 mph zone. Judge Morris said that Justice could -better be served If Goodwin were allowed to keep his license. If he drives over 45 mph within i to days he is subject to a fine of $100 plus court co its and can lose his license for a year. Walter 8. Franklin was found to be the victim of malicious prose cution and the prosecuting witness was taxed court costs. Persons who forfeited bonds fol low: Edward Croston, public drunkenness; Edgar Willis, no driver license and failing to re port an accident; Robert I. Hill, driving drunk; and Hugh A. Par rish, driving drunk and possession of non-taxpaid whiskey. The judge dismissed charges against Howard Fallin and George Pittman Jr. Fallin was charged with non-support and Pittman was charged with failing to comply with a court order. The state elected net to try nine defendants. They follow: Oral C. Howell, badcheok; Anita P. R?ut, careless and- /eckiess driving; August A Holn%p, failing to give a proper hand signal. Cioero Jones and Harold Jones, violation of fishing laws (they were convicted on another count); Charles White and Edward Knowl ton, non-support; and Edward H. Culpher and Beraabe Orazco, no driver licensee. (Md Brides Are Still Legal M's legal far ? 13-year-old girl 'to get married, with her parents' conaeat, In New Hampshire la some parts af Canada New foundland, Quebec and the Yukon Territory? a 14-year-old boy may marry a 12-year-old girl, with puiotil content. Brides of less than 12 years in age are considered proper in Tan ganyika, Africa, provided the mar riage is not consummated before the igitill A recent report a t the United Nations Commission on the Status at Wwnen ahows there are large areas of the world where no legal restrictions exist against a man taking a child bride. Ve commission has caHed for an tolarnatlMMl agreement for bidding the marriage of girls be fore the .age of 16. Bridgers Hakes Try for Freedom Sonny Bridgers, sentenced to two yttrs lor stealing two M-l rifles from tile Beaufort Negro American Legion post, made a break (or free dom Thursday afternoon, but it j didn't last very long. In an hour he was back in the county jail and now he's waiting trial on Jailbreak. Bridgers was convicted of theft in county court Dec. 4. He appeal ed and posted $400 bond but later withdrew the appeal. At 5:30 p.m. Thursday as Mr. Godwin, driver of tne truck from the Newport prison camp, was walking Bridgers from the jail to the truck. Bridgers took off toward the back part of town. Sheriff Hugh Salter rounded up deputies Bruce Edwards and Mar shall Ayscue who went to a house where pulpwood workers live in Beaufort. While the deputies covered the house, sheriff Salter went in and got Bridgers, who offered no re - 1 sistance. Business Firms Must List Their Jan. 1 Inventories All county business firms will be required to file a financial state ment of inventories ? furniture, fix tures, equipment and improve ments?as of Jan. 1, 1950, when they list their taxes during Jan uary. This was ordered by the board of county commissioners at their Dec. 1 meeting. Inventories so listed will be checked against the state income tax returns of county businesses. A penalty of 10 per cent will be charged in addition to the tax on the amount not listed for county taxes. Hearing (Continued from Page 1) Persons who furnished informa tion for the report were Clayton Fulcher Jr., chairman, J. O. Bar bour Jr., W. J. Ipock, Dan Walker, , W. H. Potter, C. T. Lewis, George | W. Dill Jr., Joe DuBois, Monroe Taylor, A. W. Daniels, Frank Noyes. Elbert Pittman, Percy Da vis, Elmer D. Willis, David Yeo mans, Monnie Fulcher, Ervin Ful cher, M. W. Willis and Harrell Taylor. Testimeay supporting the report was presented by several prom inent political and business lead ers of the county. Among those speaking were Cecil Morris, At lantic, chairman of the commer cial fisheries committee, NC De partment of Conservation and De velopment. Col. Harry Brown, chairman of the state hurricane rehabilitation commission; Elmer Willis, Willis ton; county commissioners David . Yeomans and Harrell Taylor. Judge LuUier Hamilton, More head City; Mr. DuBois, manager of the Morehcad City Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Barbour and Nor wood Young, Beaufort; A. W. Dan iels, Cedar Island and Charlotte; and D. G. Bell, Carteret's repre sentative in the state legislature. Bad weather upstate kept three important figures away from the meeting. Held up, but expected late yesterday, were Sen. B. Eve rett Jordan, congressman Graham A. Barden and William Saunders, director of the NC Department of Conservation and Development. If the McMsmcndatioas of the report are accepted and the Army takes immediate action, it will be about three years before the neces- ' sarv legislation can be put through Congress and work begun eu the project. Since World War II the British Navy has been withdrawing from Bermuda and now maintains only a small atatien there. ONUT NATIONAL I airline of the ttan I FUES NONSTOP TO NORFOLK WASHINGTON And OMMtloiw To HNilwrgh ? Chicago 1m Angvlts ? 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