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CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
1 48th YEAR, NO. 93. TWO SECTIONS SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
lounty Planning
)fficials Hear
alk by Experts
I County Commissioners
Moot with Planners
> Board to Meet Again
In January
Three members of the division of
om in unity planning, Department
f Conservation and Development,
ialeigh, spoke Tuesday night to the
jpunty planning com mission and
ounty commissioners. The offi
ials met at the Carteret-Craven
Mcctric Membership office.
i The guests were Robert D. Bar
our, J. G. Scott and John Voor
ees. George Huntley, chairman of
lc planning commission, presided.
Becauc the county does not have
le money to invest in a detailed
oning and planning program at
lis time, the three men from Ra
;igh were invited to return in Jan
ary with suggestions as to what
larteret can do, now, to stop hap
azard construction, building too
lose to the roads, and require ade
uate sanitation facilities through
ut rural areas.
Mr. Huntley pointed out that a
lap of the county now may be out
ated very soon because the State
lighway Commission has projects
foot that include a new bridge
cross the Newport River, new
ighway at Newport and possible
Iteration of present thoroughfares
round the port.
Mr. Voorhees warned that it
rould be well for the planning
ommission to study what the high
ray commission intends to do, be
See PLANNING, Page 2
Officials Still
Awaiting Red
Cross Figures
Although the county Red Cross
und drive officially ended Satur
lay, no figures on*total receipts
ire available. Red Cross chair
ncn are still accepting donations.
i $5,000 goal was set.
The Rev. W. A. Hales, Beaufort
hairman, reported Wednesday
hat "more than $500.00 had been
(ported so far and that all reports
rev not in. Mr. Hales said it
nould probably take the rest of the
veek to get the final total.
He expressed his appreciation to
he Beaufort canvassers and con
ributors who have responded to
he call for funds.
Herbert Phillips of Morehcad
:ity, county chairman, said he did
lot know how much money had
teen collected but had beard re
>orts that canvassers in the Allan
ic and Harkers Island areas were
loing well.
lames R. Sanders, Morehead
lity chairman, had no figures
ivailable yesterday but expected
O have the overall picture by the
veekend. Mr. Sanders said be was
fraid the contributions would be
ight.
Anyone who has not contributed
o the Red Cross and would like to
io so may mail their donations to
Mr. Hales, Mr. Sanders or Mr.
Phillips.
Motorist Hurt
As Car Hits Pole
Edward Wide Willis, Harkers
Island, was in the Morehead City
Hospital yesterday, recovering
from injuries he received Tuesday
morning when his car cracked in
to a power pole in front of Jones'
Barbccue on the Beaufort-More
hcad causeway
Patrolman W. E. Pickard said
Willis was headed west at a high
rate of speed. He said that he
passed a heavy truck driven by
Julius Dunn, Beaufort, cut back in
ton his lane of traffic too quickly
and caught the rear of his car, a
1953 Ford, on the front bumper of
the truck.
The car flew into the railroad
tracks and then across the cause
way, into the pole. Willis was on
his way to work at Fry Roof lag
Co. The accident happened at
?bout 8:S( -a.m. Willis said he fell
aalcep. He was alone in the car.
He is suffering from a mild con
cussion, several cuts and abra
sions. The car was demolished.
The pole it strutk was being re
placed yesterday.
Flares Sees
Coast Guardsmen from the Fort
Macon station were combing
waters around Cape Lookout yes
terday after flares were reported
?iahted in the area Wednesday
night. The search had turned up
nothing by press time yesterday.
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Morehead Sets
New Parade Date
Morebead City's Christmas pa
rade has been postponed from
Friday, Nov. 27, to Wednesday,
Dee. 2. The time will be 4 p.m.
Charles Willis, parade chair
man, said that families of many
children who would have been in
the school bands are leaving
town over the Nov. 27 weekend
(Thanksgiving) and for that rea
son, the date has been changed.
He also added that Dec. 2 will
be the first Wednesday afternoon
the stores will be open for the
Christmas season.
Higher Court
To Hear Assault
Case; Bond Set
? Judge Lambert Morris
Orders Frazier Held
? Annie D. Shepherd
Tells Her Experience
Lenster (Bear) Frazier, Harlowc,
was bound over to superior court
Tuesday when judge Lambert R.
Morris found sufficient cause for
holding him on a charge of assault
with intent to commit rape. Fraz
ier posted $500 bond.
According to the warrant for
Frazier's arrest, he assaulted and
attempted to rape Annie D. Shep
herd, Beaufort, Monday night, Nov.
2, on the road by the Core Creek
Methodist church.
Sheriff Hugh Salter and deputy
Bruce Edwards were called to the
area at about 3 a.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 3, by the Rev. James E.
Smith, Methodist pastor, into whose
home the woman had run for help.
According to the sheriff, Annie
had left Harlowe Monday night in
her car and had car trouble soon
after she started. She got Frazier
to help her push the car by using
his automobile.
ller car started, but the lights
went out, so it was decided that
Frazier would follow her car iato
Beaufort to be sure she got there
safely.
As they got in the vicinity of
Charlie Bell's old store, the sheriff
said that Frazier passed the Shep
herd car and forced it off the road.
Then, according to the sheriff,
Frazier asked Annie to get in his
car with him. When she refused,
Frazier lifted the hood of her car
and yanked wires loose so that the
car would not go.
According to testimony, Annie
then locked herself in her car and
wrapped herself in her coat, pre
pared to spend the night there.
Frazier left and came back in an
hour and asked her to open a win
dow.
When she refused, Annie said
that Frazier broke open the vent
in a front window on the driver's
aide, opened the door, pulled Annie
out and put her in his car. Then
he drove down the road by the
Core Creek Methodist Church.
As he was driving slowly, Annie
jumped out, she said, and rolled
into the ditch at the side of the
road. Frazier jumped out after
her and evidently left the car in
gear, because it started to move
away.
He gave up pursuit of Annie and
went after the car and it was then
that the woman made her way to
the minister's home and aaked far
help.
Fruicr contends that he had
paid the plaintiff for a date that
night and was merely trying to
comply with his end of the arrange
ments.
Two Morehead City Women Honored
State Puts Up Marker
At Meeting House Site
By F. C. SALISBURY
Commemorating the coming of
the Society of Friends (Quakers)
to Carteret County in the early
part of the 18th century and the
organizing of the Core Sound Meet
ing in 1733, the State Department
of History has erected on the
grounds of the Tuttle Grove Meth
odist Church on highway 101, a
metal marker designating the site
of the Meeting House erected after
the forming of the organization.
The records of the Society show
that on Aug. 1, 1733, "Several fam
ilies of Friends being settled on
Newport River, well concerned
vrtto truOu.ttotht it their duty to
gather together on the first day of
the week and the first day of the
eighth month at the home of Wil
liam Borden."
This gathering formed the first
Society of Friends in the county,
later embracing societies in adjoin
ing counties, for the records state
that "Core Sound Meeting was lo
cated in Carteret County, N. C.,
about six miles north of the town
of Beaufort. The jurisdiction of
Core Sound Monthly Meeting ex
tended over a wide area, including
Clubfoot Meeting in Craven Coun
ty, Mattamuskeet in Hyde County
and Upper and Lower Trent in
Jones County."
The present Methodist Church
stands upon the site of the Quaker
Meeting House. The graveyard in
the rear contains the remains of
many of those early Friends and
their descendants. This site is said
to be the first plat in the county
upon which a house of worship was
erected.
The land for the Meeting House
and graveyard was given the So
ciety of Friends by Henry Stanton,
one of the most prominent early
Quaker "settlers. The deed to the
site calls for "Two acres of land
bounded on the north by land giv
en by Nickles Briant, on the east
by highway, on the west by a
small branch running into Powells
creek near the Meeting House."
Following the exodus of most of
the Quakers from the county in
1833, the ancient Meeting House
was allowed to rot down. When
the society of the Tuttle Grove
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Methodist Church was in a position
to build a house of worship, the
Friends of Guilford College in 1898
ceded the property to the trustees
of the church, reserving the right
to hold Quaker meetings at any
time not conflicting with the regu
lar church service.
Credit is due Mr. Earl Campen
of the Core Creek community for
securing this marker for the coun
ty. For more than five years he
kept the request before the state
authorities in Raleigh. The Coun
ty Historical Society aided Mr.
Campen in his historical effort.
This marker was approved by
the State Historical Department in
May. and was ertcted by the High'
way Department about three wee&s
ago. The design of the marker is
of the same pattern as others
throughout the state, it is the sixth
historical marker to be placed in
Carteret County. Others are Fort
Macon in Morehead City, Whaling,
Spanish Attack and Salt Works in
Beaufort and Ocracoke near Atlan
tic.
Census to Bring
Facts Up to Date
The 1939 Census of Agriculture,
now under way in Carteret County,
will bring up to date Carteret's
farm statistics last collected in
1954, when the farm census reveal
ed the following facts:
The value of products sold in 1954
by county farm operators was
$2,377,291.
The value of all crops sold was
(1,878,923 and included $1,629,442
for field crops, $233,381 for vegeta
bles, $9,205 lor fruits and nuts, and
$6,900 for horticultural specialties
The value of all livestock and
livestock products sold was $487,013
and included $130,640 for dairy
products, $107,237 for poultry and
poultry products, and $248,237 for
livestock and livestock products.
The value of forest products sold
from the county's farms was
$11,350.
Pilots Spotting Fish
In This Area Total 23
In addition to the ten pilots listed
in Tuesday's paper, 13 others arc
spotting fish in this area.
Names of those listed Tuesday
were supplied by the factory op
erators by whom they are employ
ed. Other pilots, some of whom
spot only for individual boats, arc
the following:
Jimmy Worsham, R. G. Kell, Lc
roy Moore, Wes Jones, Robert Wa
ters, Hall Waters, Charlie Glenn,
Norman Stokes, George Edwards,
Tommy Tunnelson, Bill Moore,
Brooks Keener and George Tough.
Tiles at the Beaafwt Bar
Friday, Nov. 26
Tide Table
10:59 a.m.
11:54 p.m.
4:32 a.m.
5:25 p.m.
Satarday, Nov. 21
11:43 a.m.
5:01 a.m.
6:04 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 22
12:40 a.m.
12:32 p.m.
5:46 a.m.
7:04 p.m.
Moaday, Nov. 23
1:2S a.m.
1:25 p.m.
7:02 a.m.
S:20 p.m.
Taeaday, Nov. 24
2:19 a.m.
2:24 p.m.
1:51 a.m.
1:21 p.m.
Mrs. D. Cordova, left, and Mrs.
A. B. Roberts Jr., center, ex
amine the Madie B. Bell bowl
presented at the recent district
Woman's Club meeting. The
bowl honors Mrs. D. G. Bell,
Morehead City, right, and was
presented by the Morehead City
Woman's Club. It will be given
each year to the club in district
12 having the best overall pro
gram.
The silver goblet on the table
was presented the district by
Mrs. David Cordes of New Bern.
It is known as the Roberts Cup,
honoring Mrs. A. B. Roberts Jr.,
and will be given the junior club
having the largest percentage of
membership increase.
Mrs. Cordova is Morehead City
Woman's Club president and
Mrs. Roberts is district presi
dent.
Child, Two Cars
Hit in Beaufort
Carteret added another to its to
tal of children struck by cars Wed
nesday afternoon when 8-ycar-old
Eric W. Finer was struck by an au
tomobile on Live Oak Street in
front of Johnson - Saunders dry
cleaners.
Police said that young Finer, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Piner,
211 Gordon St., Beaufort, ran into
the street in front of a car driven
by Judy Piner Fulcher.
The lad was taken to Dr. Ful
cher's office in Beaufort where an
examination failed to show any in
jury.
There were no charges filed
against the driver.
Another Beaufort driver was
charged with carelcss and reckless
driving Monday night after he lost
control of his car and collided with
two parked vehicles on Front
Street.
Cited was Thomas W. Burden,
412 Marsh St. Police said that Bur
den was going east on Front Street
when his car went out of control
and rammed parked cars belong
ing to Guy Taylor of Kinston and
Jimmie Willis of Beaufort. Bur
den's car was a total loss.
Damage estimated to Taylor's
1953 Ford was $400 and to Willis's
1953 Chevrolet, $150.
Target Practice
Camp Lejeunc ? Marine Corps
authorities announced today that
the vicinity of Brown's Island will
be used for target practice on Nov.
23-25 inclusive.
Plans Drafted to Help *
Illiterates Read , Write
Under leadership of Mrs.'
Floy Garner, supervisor of
the County Home Demon
stration program, plans were
made Wednesday to coop
erate in a movement to teach
illiterates to read and write.
According to the 1950 census,
Mrs. Garner said that approximate
Iy 3,000 residents of this county are
classified as illiterates. Since pop
ulation of the county, according to
the last census, was 23,059, that
means that approximately 12 per
cent of the Carteret people cannot
read or write.
Mrs. Garner met with community
leaders who she thought would be
interested in cooperating in a "read
and write" movement. The meet
ing was held in the postoffice build
ing, Beaufort.
Figures on illiterates in this coun
ty may be shocking, Mrs. Garner
said, but there are other counties
in eastern Carolina that have a
higher number of illiterates. It is
estimated that there are 425,000
people in the state who have had
four or less years of schooling and
cannot read or write.
Carteret's participation in teach
ing persons to read and write would
be part of the Southeastern Litera
cy Movement, outgrowth of a pilot
project in the Charlotte area last
winter, which was termed highly
successful.
me movement is oeing nanniea
by the John C. Campbell Folk
School, Brasstown, N. C., and is
directed by Mayes Behrman, Brass
town. Home Demonstration Clubs
have been requested to spearhead
the literacy movement in this area.
Teaching of the non-readers and
non-writers would center on a tv
program which would be presented
four mornings a week at 6:30 a.m.,
starting Jan. 14 over WNCT, Green
ville. The course covers 98 lessons.
In conjunction with the program,
trained instructors would do a half
hour of follow-up work with stu
dents following the program. Stu
dents can take the course in their
homes, if there is someone there
to help them with follow-up work.
Or arrangements may be to
have students meet in a "central
place, with one teacher.
To learn whether there would be
anyone in the county interested in
taking the course, the group meet
ing with Mrs. Garner decided that
letters should be sent out through
the schools and Sunday Schools,
the letters going to children who
know of someone in their locality
who might like to learn to read
and write.
If upon being read the letter, the
person is interested in the course,
a blank, filled out by family mem
ber or friend, would be returned.
Mrs. Maurice Richardson, former
school principal, was appointed to
draft the letter. If there is suffi
cient interest, further plans will be
made for training the volunteer
teachers in the literacy program,
Mrs. Garner said.
Books to be used by a student in
the course cost $4. It was (elt that
money might be raised to finance
book purchase for those persons
unable to buy them.
E. C. Jernigan, high school su
pervisor, who attended the meeting,
commented that people who can
not read and write usually have
had to drop out of school to support
the family; others may have dis
covered since leaving school that
they should have learned more and
would like to learn now, but have
no opportunity.
Attending the meeting in addi
tion to those mentioned, were Mrs.
Ben Jones, county education leader
for Home Demonstration Clubs,
Grover Munden, president of the
Carteret Broadcasting Co., Mrs.
Leota Hammer of the county health
department and Miss Ruth Peeling,
editor of the Carteret County News
Times.
Morehead City Stands on Brink
Of ' No Lighting' for Christmas
Unless more Morehead City busi
nessmen take interest in the town's
being lighted for Christmas, there
may be no lights this year, accord
ing to the Morehcad City Mer
chants Association.
0. J. Morrow, appointed by the
merchants association to contact
businessmen, said that only half
have responded with contributions.
The other 50 per cert say they
don't care whether the town is
lighted or not, or else say they're
not going to pay anything becausc
they know others will.
The half who have taken part in
Uk- program have given <1,143,
most of which has gone to pay for
LAST YEAR'S Christmas lighting.
The debt remaining from last year,
according to Mr. Morrow, was $#21
plus $88 for current to Carolina
Power and Light. This totals
$1,000, leaving a balance of $136.
Cart of prttlag up lights this year
will be $1^M, which mean that
the town is abort *1,400 of having
4
enough to financc 1959 Christmas
lighting. If the other half of the
businessmen would assume their
share of the responsibility for light
ing the town, the merchants asso
ciation says, this cost probably
could be met.
Work will start tomorrow on put
ting up the lights, but Mr. Morrow
says the workmen are proceeding
on faith that there will be money
collected to pay them.
Anyone who has not contributed
to the lighting and would like to
make the town cheery for Christ
mas is asked to send a check to
the Merchants Association, carc of
the Chamber of Commerce, More
head City.
Those who have contributed thus
far are the following: Hill's, Se
curity Loan, THE NEWS-TIMES,
City News Stand, Dora Dinette,
WMBL, Willis Auto, RfcN, Adlcr s,
Sinclair Refining.
Sears, Roebuck .and Co., Caro
lina*Powcr tod light Co., Walter
Morris, Jeweler; Cooperative Sav
ings It Loan Association, Early
Jewelers.
Beasley't Radio and TV Service,
Morehead City Floral Co., J. M.
Davis ? Texaco, J. W. Herbin,
Rose's 5 It 10, Carteret-Craven
Electric Membership Corp.
Continental Timbers, Dr. Russell
Outlaw, Atlantic Beach Sales It
Service, Chalk It Gibbs, Paul Cle
land, Riggs Motor Repair, Mutual
Insurance Agency.
Morehead Builders Supply Co.,
Dr. J. W. Gainey, Western Auto
Associate Store, Earlena's Shoe
Store, E. W Downum Co., Blanch
ard's Electric Service.
Sanitary Fish Market and Res
taurant, Parker Motors, Bclk's,
Carolina Water Co., First-Citizens
Bank and Truat Co., Sound Appli
ance Co., Inc., Ottia Fish Market.
Broadway Cafe, Leary's Store
for Men, Machine and Supply Co.,
D. B. Webb, Morehead Theatre,
City Theatre, and Buy Bee Caie.
Beam Pierces Car
Photo by J. W. Sykcs
An arrow in <he picture points to the bridge railing that entered
the front of a speeding car on the Mcrrimon Road Saturday night and
penetrated the length of the car. One of those injured, Clem Reels,
had to have his leg amputated above the knee at the Morehead City
hospital Tuesday. Driving the car was Floyd Reels, identified as a
brother of Clem.
Symphony Society
Sets Fund Drive
The Carteret chapter of the
North Carolina Symphony Socie
ty will conduct its annual fund
drive Jan. 4-16, according to the
Rev. C. Edward Sharp of Beau
fort, chapter president. The
dates were set at a meeting of
officers Tuesday night at the
civic center.
Mr. Sharp announced that the
symphony will give a concert for
children and one for adults in the
spring in Morehead City. A. C.
McAllister of Chapel Hill, society
executive, was present at the
meeting.
JC's Hear Report
On Their Float
Morehead City Jaycecs heard a
report on the progress of their
Christmas parade float Monday
night. The float will depict three
ol the Jaycee sponsored activities
of the past year. The three activi
ties will be the football program,
Miss Morehead City pageant and
Christinas activities.
It was announced that the fol
lowing trophies would be awarded
to members of the Morehead City
high school football at the forth
coming football, banquet: Ocean
Oil Co. will present a trophy to the
outstanding back; Morehead City
Drug Co. will present a trophy to
the outstanding lineman and
Lcary't will present a sportsman
ship trophy.
Head coach Norman Clark will
present a trophy to the player who
has shown the most improvement
over last year.
Also discussed at the meeting
was the possibility of holding the
distinguished service awards ban
quet this year in conjunction with
the Beaufort Jaycecs.
Defendant Gets
Half-Year Term
Suspended
A Cherry Point Marine, Richard
Max Stone, was given a six-month
suspended sentence in Morehead
City recorder's court Monday aft
er he was convicted on charges of
forcible trespass. Stone was orig
inally charged with window peep
ing. The court amended the war
rant.
The defendant entered a no con
test plea to the trespass chargc.
After hearing the evidence. Stone
was found guilty. The jail term
was suspended by judge Herbert
O. Phillips on the condition that
Stone remain on good behavior,
stay out of Morehead City for
twelve months, pay a fine of $50
and court costs.
In other court action, B.U. Cov
ington of Beaufort appeared be
fore the court to answer charges
of obtaining lodging, food and ac
commodations at the Jefferson Ho
tel without paying, and obtaining
credit at the same hotel by false
pretense. Covington pleaded not
guilty to hf>th charges. Prayer for
judgment was continued for one
week.
Thomas Hardy Tew of Havelock,
charged with drunk driving, re
quested a jury trial and his case
was bound over to the next term
of superior court. The defendant's
bond was set at $150.
Torrance Norris Glover, Cherry
Point, was given a 30-day jail sen
tence, suspended on payment of
$25 and court costs for having no
liability insurance, no registration
and improper use of registration
plates.
The breaking and entering case
against Dan Whealton of Morehead
City was ruled malicious prosecu
tion and the court ordered the
prosecuting witness to pay court
costs.
Carl Duncan Lewis of Morehead
City was fined $25 and court costs
for speeding and Kathleen Warren
was acquitted on charges of sim
ple assault.
Prayer for judgment was con
tinued for one week in the case of
Ernest Lee James of Newport. He
was charged with using loud and
profane language and disturbing
the peace.
Frank Xavier Green of I'asa
goula, Miss., appeared to answer
charges of speeding, careless and
reckless driving and leaving the
scene of an accident. He was not
prosecuted.
James F. Keel of Bculaville was
ordered to pay court costs and
make a check good after he was
found guilty of issuing a worthies!
check.
There were seven cases continu
ed until next week's term of court.
Lights Flicker
Lights in the western part of
Morehead City went off for a few
minutes it 7:20 p.m. Wednesday
when a power line fell in the vicin
ity of Morehead Block and Tile Co.
Repairs were made unuiedisMy,