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-s= CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ,0' 48th YEAR, NO. 101. TWO 8KCTION8 SIXTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1959 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Marine Captain at Airport Helps Keep Airways Safe Newft-Tlmet Photo by McCarob ( apt. Ralph Troupe, center, points out military flight lanes to three spotter pilots, R. Andrews, James Page (kneeling) and Charles Glenn. Captain Troupe is the liaison officer between Cherry Point and the spotter pilots. 4 Postmasters Expect Record Mail ThisSeason Postal authorities in Washington estimate the current Christmas mail on a nationwide basis will be the highest on record both for greeting cards and parcels post master Harold Webb announced to day. These conclusions arc based on ?samplings of postal receipts made in several major cities across the country which show anticipated in year*" 0f 2 10 5 pcr cent over last Postmaster Webb called attention to the recent action of the Civil Aeronautics Board which approved Postmaster General Summerfield's plan to make use of surplus space , on commercial planes to speed the movement by air of first-class mail >ng the Christmas rush. 'tie postoffice department once again plana to deliver all Christmas mail prior to Christmas day, as it has for the past several seasons postmaster Webb noted. He urges local mailers to cooperate with the postofficc department by mailing Ckristmas cards and packages t early and often. P?ftmIS'*r ,lso s"?8ests .that Christmas cards be mailed at the 4 -cent first-class rate, or 7 cents if sent via air mail; thus per mitting one to include handwritten messages on cards. Also, cards sent by first-class mail are sub ject to forwarding or return ser vice. ? The postmaster states that the t present flow of Christmas cards is running about the same as last year, but the mailing of Christmas gifts ? lagging. He suggests that -all gift parcels to most distant pointa be sent by air parcel post from now on. Industrial Moves Develop Rapidly Announcement of the Morehead City Garment Co. plans to build a new plant, brings to two the major developments in industry in the Morehead City area within a pe riod of a week. ' ni?'rUlnan D' KcmP' Morehead City, announced last Friday that ? new garment manufacturing company, to be known as Carteret Industries, Inc., would be estab lished in this immediate area. Plant construction ia scheduled to start Feb. I. An estimated 100 persons will be employed and the payroll per year will average more Ulan $250,000, Mr. Kemp said ,ul .Tfy"? Dec affiliated wth the Morehead City Garment Details of the Morehead City (?armcnt Co. plana appear else where in today's issue. Peter Block, Crab Point Road, Morehead City, invites everyone to his Christinas party at 8 p.m. Mon day at his home. The party is an annual affair with Mr. and Mrs. Block m boat ? By ELLEN BORDEAUX Capt. Ralph J. Troupe, a friend ly Marine Corps officer, is keeping flyers of fish-spotting planes and Cherry Point jets apart. Captain Troupe is liaison officer between the two. It's his job to see that the spot ting planes get clearance to fly this area in search of fish. The job came about after a Beaufort flyer, Jesse Taylor, was killed in a collision with a jet in August. TV captain get* up at 4:30 each morning so that he can be at the Beaufort-Morehead airport before the spotter pilots arp ready to leave. It gets to be a long day, he said, before the planes return about dark and he checks them in. Seeing that all the planes return isn't part of his job, but Captain Troupe is a flyer himself and mak ing sure that the same number re turn as went out is mostly habit. A simple procedure is used to clear the local pilots. Each morn ing the pilots report to Captain Troupe where they plan to fly and their anticipated altitude. The captain has a direct line to the air craft control tower at Cherry Point and informs them of the pilots' plans. Military planes have curtailed their air-to-air gunnery activity in this area and Camp Lejeunc has limited its seaward firing to five miles to prevent interference with Red Cross Final Tally Awaited With the county Red Cross fund drive over for more than a month, reports from some areas are still not ia and final totals have not been tabulated. James R. Sanders, Morehead City chairman, reports that $2,013.55 has been turned in to date. No report has been received from White Oak, where Milton Truckner was chairman, or the Smyrna-Marshallberg area, where John Valentine was chairman. The following ia a breakdown of the amount received: Atlantic $207.94, Beaufort $1,014.18, Harkers Island $378.20, Morehead City $373; Newport $40.23. The Rev. W. A. Hales, Beaufort chairman, and his canvassers should be commended for raising more than half the county total in Beaufort. Mr. Hales also reports that a few more checks are expect ed. This Christmas Brings Warmer Season Than '58 The mild weather experienced in the county this week is a marked contrast to that of exactly one year ago, according to weather observ er Stamey Davis. On Wednesday a high of 62 was recorded with the low mark only 43 during the night. One year ago, the high recorded was 45 and the low was a cold 21 degrees. Mr. Davis recorded the following tem peratures for the period Monday through Wednesday. High Low Wind Monday 49 38 NE Tuesday 58 39 ENE Wednesday 82 43 SW the civilian planes. Cherry Point planes plan no activity at all, the captain said, until the spotter planes are taken care of. Everything has worked out fine, so far, the officer reports. Every one has cooperated beautifully. The officer termed the spotter pilots and folks at the airport as "the finest bunch of people I've ever seen." He even said he might consider taking up fish spotting himself when he gets out of the Corps. This is Captain Troupe's first as signment since he's been at Cherry Point. He checked in about "a month ago after a tour of duty In Japan. He is high in his praise of Cherry Point, terming it the Ma rine Corps' finest station. The captain has three assistants in his laision work, who make it possible for him to have a day off occasionally. They are lieuten ants R. D. English, F. T. Sullivan and M. D. Reichenthall. Major D. O. Morris, aircraft control of ficer at Cherry Point, is the cap tain's superior officer. Captain Troupe is married and has three children. Although he was born and raised in Missouri, the Troupes call Costa Mesa, Calif., home. At present they are living at Cherry Point. Captain Ralph Troupe, his as sistants and the pilots of the fish spotting planes are proving that military personnel and civilians can almost always find a workable plan beneficial to all. Messiah Soloist Mrs. Clifton Lynch, soprano, will be one of the soloists in The Messiah, which will be sung at S p.m. Monday in Ann Street Methodist Church. Mrs. Charles Hassell will direct the choir com posed of residents throughout the county. Tid? Table Tides at the Beanfort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, Dec. IS #:58 a.m. 3:52 a.m. 10:43 p.m. 4:32 p.m. Saturday, Dec. It 10:34 a.m. 4:18 a.m. 11:23 p.m. 5:02 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20 11:14 a.m. 4:49 a.m. 5:33 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21 12:06 a.m. 5:28 a.m. 12:02 p.m. 0:13 p.m. Tneaday, Dec. 22 12:50 a.m. 6:25 a.m. 12:S2 p.m. T:1I p.m. No Projpecf j Of Shipbuilding Firm Reopening ? Hearing Held This Week at Raleigh ? Numerous Suits Filed Against Company opening any time soon, according ~ f?rmation at another hearing th *'e!gh 0148 week relative to f !rs, of ttle bankrupt Kirch The rdKA,rd Invcstment Co ? ?SsSrsS'.*;" 7;; ASS ,ind opcra,ed by KiA: lheCinimSUa'4 "rc Pendin? "fiainst been fZf 3 cr"ntnal suit has R C. Kirchoffr.1"5' presid<'n'. m1"? SUiU ln ,hjs "un trrcZ a" PRr?sC.CtM8AfrnC,n Oil Co F,ri p . Ada,r' 0tm relative to nL ? two off<'" f "??mC!ar AmeriCan Trusl r^r "jTlJjng. Only Morris and Brass re" Plied, according to Huffier " at about $50 000 preX^t^h;.'^' jud<" .?iS from KftA ZrtT* ?."* ta?? building HnSn Morthc,d Ship s-jisk - ernment may end gov" ?rm a refund " tho represen??rRy?saBC?aUfLr,a',t^Cy' fort, attended the hearing W Pastor Lists Week's Services Christmas services and programs for Wildwood Presbyterian church were announced this week by the Rev. Alvis M. Daniel, pastor. The Christmas sermon at the 11 a.m. Sunday service will be No Time for Stars with the text based on Matthew 2:110. The choir will present the can tata, The Light of the World, at 7 p.m. Sunday. The music will be accompanied by Christmas scenes portrayed by the Junior High Fel lowship. Sen. Everett Jordan Visits County Wednesday United States Son. Everett Jor dan and two of his staff members visited the county Wednesday. With the senator were Bill Whitley and Joe Crawford. The senator called on Maltby Taylor of Sea Level and visited several business places at Atlantic. Sheriff Hugh Salter had lunch with Senator Jordan in Beaufort. The senator also called on C. G. Holland, state commercial fisheries commissioner and other local dig nitaries. No Garbage to be Picked Up in Beaufort Dec. 25-26 No garbage will be collected in Beaufort Dec. 24 or Dec. 2S, Ron ald Earl Mason, town clcrk, an nounced this week. The garbage crew will try to make up the lost time Saturday, but probably will not catch up un til Monday or Tuesday, Mr. Mason said. The crew is being held to five men in an effort to stay within the budget and it is felt that they deserve at least two days off for Christmas, the clerk obaerved. Gloucester Club Invites Communities to Sing The Gloucester Community Club invites residents of neighboring communities to the Christmas sing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the com munity park. The community tree will be light ed and coffee and doughnuts serv ed. The club will alio sponsor a tur key shoot at 2 p.m. Chriatmaa day at Pigott'i (tore. Garment Company Will Build New Plant in Morehead City 4 The Time Draws Near Second graders at Queen Street school in Beaufort. Denise Harker, Kerry Godette and Shelton Ellison place straws in the Advent Crib in their room. The students place a straw in the crib for each good deed they do, to make a soft bed for the Christ Child. JC's Consider Variety Show Members of the Morehead City Jaycees discussed the possibility of the club's sponsoring a variety show in February, at their meet ing Monday night. A committee composed of Cliff Lynch, P. H Geer Jr., Tommy Ballou and Charles Willis was appointed to make the preliminary investiga tion. Another committee of Marion Mills, Mr. Lynch and L. E. Kelly was named to make arrangements' for the club to have a ladies night sometime in January. A report was heard on the foot ball banquet sponsored recently by \ the club in conjunction with the 1 Touchdown Club. Herbert O. Phillips III thanked the club for helping to make the Christmas float which the Jaycees entered in both the Morehead City and Beaufort Christmas parades. Members were reminded of the district workshop to be held in Richlands Dec. 16 and of the dis trict meeting in Jacksonville Jan. 5. Two Cars Upset In Saturday Rain Two cars turned over in the western part of the county Satur day during heavy downpours of rain. At 11:45 a.m. a 1953 Pontiac driv en by Lowell Campbell, Camp Le jeune, turned over seven miles south of Newport on the Nine-Foot Road. The car was headed north, pass ed another car and went into a skid. The car was a total loss. Campbell was not injured, nor were charges preferred. Patrol man W. J. Smith investigated. At 2:30 p.m. just east of the Carteret-Craven county line, a 1951 Plymouth, headed west, upset. The driver was Robert K. Wadlington, Camp Lejeune. That car, too. was demolished, according to the in vestigating officer, patrolman Smith. JC's to Raise Funds for Party By Selling Bread Beaufort Jaycees will have a Christmas party for worthy chil dren Monday night at the Scout hall. The club will raise money for the party by selling bread, house-to-house, in Beaufort tonight. The party will be for children in the first, second and third grade age group and will itart at 7 p.m. The club will also help a needy Negro family in the community during the holidays. Clyde Owens Jr. will furnish fruit for the Christ mas party. After their regular meeting Mon day night, club members moved some railroad ties, donated by the B&M Railroad, from the Beaufort Morehead bridge to the site of the marine museum to be erected in Beaufort. Schools to Close At Noon Today Schools will close at noon to day for the Christmas holiday. They will not reopen until Mon day, Jan. 4. The Christmas holiday was originally scheduled to end Dec. 29, but has been changed. The holiday is starting earlier than usual to permit high school stu dents to earn extra money by working in the stores prior to Christmas. Changing of the Christmas holi day will mean later closing of school in May, than had been originally announced by the board of education. Engineers Near StudyCompletion Final results are being tabulated on the study of Army engineers on bridge clearance requirements on the inland waterway. Col. Paul D. Troxler, district en gineer, Jacksonville, says that a committee is expected to make its report to the chief of engineers by Feb. 1, 1960. Anyone who wants to submit any supplementary data may do so, however, by Jan. 15. Present standard clearance of bridges on the waterway is 80 feet. Engineers are trying to determine whether this clearance should be increased. A part of their study includes actual use of the water way by tall vessels for a period of a year. That study was started in the fall of 1958. ' Morehead City Garment Co., manufacturer of men's sportswear, announced yesterday plans to build a new plant in Morehead City. Mrs. J. W. Jackson, president of the Morehead City Garment Co., said the building will be located, according to present plans, on property just west of the present factory on Bridges Street. The major portion of the site is owned by Mrs. Jackson and a small wedge lot by the gar-< ment company. Contracts for the new plant, to! be modern in every aspect, will be let after the first of the year. It is hoped that all present operations 1 will be moved into the new build ing by June 1. Plans are being developed in co operation with citizens of the com munity, to build a new building. | There will probably be investments | from local businessmen, Mrs. Jack son remarked. The building wUI be of concrcte block, brick veneered and similar to the building pictured in the Morehcad City Garment Co. Christ mas greeting on page 8 of this sec tion. Morehcad City Garment Co. started operations in Morehcad City in June 1936 and is renting part of its present quarters, a large rambling frame building, from the town of Morchead City. The firm employs 250 people. Its payroll last year and other local expenditures amounted to over a million dollars. "We manufacture shirts entirely for the Beaver Shirt Co., whose ' president, Jules Peters, is an equal I partner in the three plants located I at Morehcad City, Lillington and ! Abbeyville," Mrs. Jackson said. Mr. Peters is vice-president of the three plants. , The Abbeyville firm, in South Carolina, was acquired in Novem ber 1958. Mrs. Jackson, with the assistance of Abe Silverman, sec retary of the Morchead City Gar ment Co., directs operations of the three plants. Joe Taylor, superintendent of plant operations at LUlington, is at present assisting in operations at Morehcad City. Peter Hooper, who was with the Morehcad City operation for nine years, 1946-55, la now manager it LUlington. Because of the cxcellent-quality men's shirts produced at (he More head City Garment Co., Morehcad City has become known nation wide, for its sportswear, Mrs. Jackson observed. Buyers from throughout the country visit Morehcad City regu larly. The shirt is known as the best in the popular-price range. It was also announced yesterday that the garment company will close Wednesday for the Christmas holidays and reopen Jan. 4. Tak ing of inventory, however, will start Jan. 1. The holidays arc a paid vacation period. Employees will attend their Christmas dinner, an annual event, at noon Wednesday at the Rex Restaurant, as guests of the gar ment company. For persons who have missed, recently, the plant's morning whis tle, Mrs. Jackson explains that work has been starting at 7 a.m., earlier than usual. The whistle blows now only at noon and at 4:30 p.m. In October it was announced that the Morehcad City Garment Co. was contemplating a move to an other city due to the dire need for new quarters. This week's an nouncement means that the gar ment company, one of the earliest full-fledged industries in the coun ty, will continue ita long-time as sociation with Morchead City and Carteret. ? County Cotton Farmers Approve Bale Assessment Thirty -two of Carteret's 34 cot ton growers went to the polls Tues day. Thirty voted in favor of as sessing themselves 10 cents a bale in the next three years to continue a program to push the use of cot ton. Thirty-two approved cotton acreage and marketing quotas. Statewide, cotton farmers voted overwhelmingly in favor of the as sessment and quotas. Funds will be used to continue the work of the North Carolina Cotton Promotion Association. Peanut farmers also went to the polls, but there are no peanut farmers in this county, according to the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation office. Statewide, peanut quotas were approved. B. J. May, ASC manager, re minds cotton farmers that to con tinue receiving their allotments, they must plant at least a part of the allotment each year. If they don't intend to plant, they should notify the ASC office so that the allotment might be released. If such notification is not given, and the cotton farmer does not plant cotton, he loses a portion of his allotment each year until the entire allotment is gone. Mr. May points out that under a previous set-up, if the farmer released his allotment and it was not assigned to someone else, he was penalized. This is no longer applicable under the new arrange ment, the ASC manager said. Farmers who do not plan to plant cotton in 1960 may register now with the ASC office. They have until Feb. 10 to do so. Cotton farmers vote annually on quotas. Christmas Issue To Appear Dec. U THE NEWS-TIMES Christmas is sue will be out Thursday, Dec. 24. This means that all news dead lines will be 24 hours earlier than usual. County news reaching the paper Wednesday probably will not make the paper. It should be in the newspaper office Tuesday morning, Dec. 22. Deadline for church news for the Christmas weekend will be noon Tuesday, Dec. 22. Deadline for classified ads for the Christmas issue will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 23. The newspaper office will be closed Christmas Day and the day following. The two issues immediately fol lowing Christmas will appear on the regular publication dates, Dec. 29 and Jan. 1. The newspaper of fice will be closed Friday, Jan. 1, but open as usual Saturday morn ing, Jan. 2. County Collects 94.5 Per Cent of Tax Lew for 1958 Thr county collected 94 '4 per ccnt of the 1958 tax levy,' accord ing to the audit report of the 1958 59 fiscal year, which was present ed to county commissioners this month. This was a slight improve ment over the 1957 percentage of collection, 93.92. The 1958 levy was $535,981.73 as compared with the 1957 levy of $518,413.34. Bonds retired during the past fiscal year amounted to $210,000 plus $27,000 in school bonds. Bonds outstanding as of June 30, 1959, totaled $869,412.81. Since then, the debt has been reduced further. For the fiscal year 1958-59, pre paid taxes were up $32,066.(1 over the prior year, current levy col lections were up $14,246.15 and prior levy collection! were up $17,359.73. Cash oa deposit at the end of the year was as follows: in tho gen eral fund $45,892.92, in the debt service fund $104,803.80, school ap propriation fund $104,574.89, wel fare fund $53,789.25, and for re tirement of called bonds $187, 412.81, making a total of $495, 79S.08. The fund for retirement of bonds is on depoait in the Han over bank, New York. The total operating fund surplus at the close of the year was $219, 810.77. This surplus occurred in the following accounts: general fund $17,317.17, debt service $79, 867 09, school appropriation fund $51,650.09. welfare fund $32,898.32. county health fund $11,237.82, and county board of education $26, 841.58. While there were over-expendi tures in certain departments, in the overall picture expenses did not exceed income. Spent in all funds was $615,766.84. Budgeted was $888,110.73. In the general fund, there were over-expenditures in the sheriffs office, for elections, courthouse and grounds, register of deeds office and the clerk of superior court's office. Total receipts for the year by the county were $1,105,128.33; total dis bursements $1,038,230.69. Among the revenue Items were $12,129.65 from beer and wine li censes, $30,2ftt.89 form ABC stores, and $3,455.29 from business license fees. The board of education received $28,949.# in fines and forfeitures from courts in the county. Tb* county's total assets amount to $7,351,481.25. Total couitfy val uation, on which the tax levy ia baaed, waa $40,070,365. Ia the clerk of superior court of fice, where a separate audit is made, total cash receipts for the year ending June 30, 1959, were $209,209.17. Total receipts and bal ance amounted to $233,790.92. Total disbursements from the office were $213,299.99. Disbursements include money paid, by court order, to dependent children, cash bonds returned and similar items attendant to court operation which cannot be consid ered "income" in the 'same sense one considers income in business. Trail funds invested amount to $91,551.16. Trust fund total was $108,514.(8. Costs uncollected in recorder's court amounted to $20,094.91, su perior court (civil) $4,080.52, and criminal, $6,605.44. A. H. Jama, clerk of superior court, said that following the 1957 58 audit, hia office concentrated on whittling down the recorder's court cost* owed, and under the present system, coats are not being per mitted to pile up, uncollected. Making the county audit was Williams and Wall, Raleigh. ' I in ii id
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