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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES Carteret county news-times ,#' 48th YEAR, NO. 104. EIGHT PAGES , MOBEHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1969 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Thieves Operate Sunday Night In Two Towns The wave of break-ins which started last week continued over the weekend. Three places were entered Sunday night and an at tempt was made to enter a fourth. Thieves were unsuccessful in their attempt to enter the Bell Munden funeral home, Morehead City, but Mack's Place on Lennox viile Road, Beaufort, was robbed, as was Dr. W. M. Brady's office, Morehead City. Leonard's Metal Shop, 2407 Bridges St., Morehead City, was also ransacked, but nothing was missing, according to police. Taken at Mack's Place, operated by Leo Mathis, were cigarettes, and a couple cases of beer, accord* ing to sheriff Hugh Salter. The place was entered by the front door. The glass in the door was broken and the lock turned. Dep uty George Smith is investigating. * Leonard's and Dr. Brady's office were entered in the same way. In the doctor's office a locked steel cabinet was pried open. Taken was between $40 and $45 in cash and and approximately $35 in checks, Dr. Brady said. The theft was discovered yester day morning by Dr. Brady's nurse, Mrs. Elaine Nelson. David Munden, Bell-Munden fu neral home, said that a screw driv er was used, apparently, to try to pry open the front door of the fu neral home. The wood was dam aged, but the door could not be opened. "The only thing they would have found in there were caskets," Mr. Munden declared. Entered last week were the Sin eclair Service station, Beaufort school, a home at Bettie and Bar bour's Marine Supply Co., Beau fort. The entry into the Brady office was the second in the past few months. Burlington Hunter Shot Spturday Down East Edward Pitt, Burlington, sustain rd a bullet wound in his abdomen *t about 7 o'clock Saturday morn ing while getting ready to go hunt ing at Otway. Pitt was taken to the- Morehead City hospital where he was report ed in a critical condition yester day. Sheriff Hugh Salter said that <after investigating, he concluded that the shooting was accidental. Pitt told Capt. Carl Bunch, More head City police department, that he dropped his .38 calibre pistol and while trying to put the pistol and holster on his belt, the pistol went off. This Way It's Easy .... u bird b cup c dish d fish f girl g hand h This chart, illustrating the Laubach method of teaching non-readers to read and write, is like those that will be used in the tv reading program to start in January. Non-readers who wish to enroll in the reading and, writing courses are asked to fill in the blank below, or have it filled in for them. The courses can be taken wherever a tv set is available. Further information may be had by contacting the home agent's office, courthouse annex, Beaufort County Receives $9,648 As Its Share from US Forest Carteret's receipts from the fed eral government for revenue from national forest lands located within the county, amounted to $9,648.04 during the past year. Twenty-si* North Carolina coun ties where National Forest lands are located cut up a $233,362.25 pie from receipts on the North Caro lina National Forests, Hugh S. Red ding, Asheville, forest supervisor, reports. Mr. Redding stated that the federal government has issued a check for that amount to the North Carolina state treasurer. The sura represents 25 per cent of the total $933,449 received from the sale of timber and other special ,us<;s in North Carolina National forests during 1958-59. Counties where these lands are located receive 25 per cent of the proceeds of timber sales and other earnings each year, allocated on the basis of the acreage of Na tional Forest within their limits. Payment* this year amount to \ about 21 cents per acre, up from fjfhe usual 15 cents per acre paid in previous years. Mr. Redding said the 1958-59 fed eral fiscal year was unusually pro ductive following a year of poor weather when timber harvesting was reduced. North Carolina counties which have received payments include | Ashe, $105.79; Carteret, Craven and I Jones. $26,169.04; Cherokee, Clay, MGraham, Jackson, Macon, Swain ^nd Transylvania, $100,822.31; Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, Mc Dowell, Mitchell, Watauga, and Yancey, $96,173.48; Davidson, Mont gomery and Randolph, $8,091.63. Mr Redding said that North Car olina National forest lands now in clude 152,351 acres in the Croatan Forest area; 448,251 in the Nanta hala National Forest area; 479,267 in the Pisgah National Forest, 43, 391 acres in the Uwharrie Purchase Unit and 327 acres in the Cherokee National Forest. This Is a total of 1.124,017 acres located in North Carolina. Accord ing to the forest supervisor, these ]ands provide water supply protec hunting. fishing and outdoor recreation in addition to the money from timber sales and other earnings. National Forest lands are man aged under a multiple use program aimed at providing the maximum of all types of public use from every acre of land, Mr. Redding said. They are opened for contin ued public use, he said. Owen T. Jamison, district ranger of the Croatan National Forest, added that the $26,169.04 paid to Carteret, Craven and Jones Coun ties was paid as follows: Carteret County, $9,648.04; Craven County, $10,271.22, and Jones County, $6, 249.78. ENROLLMENT BLANK FOR TV READING PROGRAMS Adult Education designed to teach adults to read and write, who were deprived of this opportunity earlier in life. Student's Name Street or Box No. Town County State Date Enrolled by Address Please' return to Mrs. Maurice Richardson, Box (2, Morebead City. (Persons who can read and write are asked to read this blank to the student, fill it in for him or her, and mail it). 26 Individuals, Firms Invest In 1960 Advertising Program Only 2C individuals and firms have subscribed $1,750 thus far to the Greater Morehead City cham ber of commerce advertising pro gram for 1960. J. A. DuBois, manager of the chamber, says, however, that if the other 200 chamber members give the same cooperation, "1860 will be our greatest year of all." Car ferry aervice from Atlantic to Ocracoke, acheduled to atart in March, will make the nationally publicized outer banks route travel Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Tuesday, Dec. 2t 7:34a.m. 1:03 p.m. 1.19 a.m. 2:05 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3# 8:26 a.m. 1:57 p.m. 2:13 a.m. 2:55 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 31 9:10 a.m. 9:53 p.m. 3:05 a.m. , 3:43 p.m. Friday, Jan. 1 10:16 a.m. 10:51 p.m. 3:56 a.m. 4:35 p.m. ed by thousands of tourists, Mr. DuBois points out. "They will know nothing about our town, our beaches, resorts or other advantages unless we tell them. The New York Times de voted almost an entire page Dec. 20 to Ocracoke and the marvelous outer banks highway. Not one oth er town, beach or resort was men tioned," Mr. DuBois reports. "No one has ever come THROUGH Carteret County before. They knew where they were going: to a dead end," the chamber man ager continued. "They HAD to visit our towns and resorts. Now we must reach them before they pass us by," the manager com ments. lie points out that only two months remain in which to plan advertising, locate signs, prepare additional literature and place ads and publicity material. "Delay will mean the loss of our greatest opportunity," Mr. DuBois remark ed. "Tourists usually have their plans made by March. Later will be too late for your 1960 business." The chamber's goal for 1960 is $14,650 for advertising and publici ty alooe. So far, investments have ranged from $25 to $125, the cham ber manager reports. Sixty-six dollars from each member would mean attainment of the anticipated $14,650. Those who have invested thus far are the following: Herald Printing Co., Dr. S. W. Hatcher, Piggly Wig gly, Hamilton & McNeill, Henry White, Walter Zingelmann. Carteret Concrete Co., Kincaid's Motel, First-Citizens Bank, O. M. Smaw, New Bern; Hamilton's Inc., Spooner's Creek, S. A. Chalk Jr. Jerry J. Willis, Dr. Russell Out law, Wilbur V. Garner, The News Times, Chalk It Gibbs, Jefferson Hotel, Bud Dixon's Motel, Morehead Builders Supply, Com mercial National Bank, Walter Morris Jeweler, Joe DuBois, Sears, Roebuck It Co., Mom It Pop Smith's, Carteret-Craven Electric. Man Jailed James Jackson was charged witli public drunkenness and put in the county jail Christmas day, accord ing to chief of police Guy Springle. The chief said that otherwise the Christmas holiday! in Beaufort were quiet. Babson Predicts Continuing Cold War Chill , No Hot War Higher Water Rates Will Not Be Levied Today Because the State Utilities Com mission has not given approval of the proposed raise in water rates, Carolina Water Co., which serves Beaufort, Morehead City and Snow Hill, said higher rates would not go into effect today, as originally proposed. The hearing on Carolina Water company's request was held in Ra leigh the first week of December. Anticipating approval of the re quest, the water company set Dec. 29 as the tentative date for the higher rates. Beaufort was the only municipal ity which made formal protest, be ing represented at the hearing by Thomas Bennett, associate of C. R. Wheatly, Beaufort town attor ney. Beaufort invited Morehead City and Snow Hill to join in the pro test. Morehead City did not indi cate its willingness to do so. May or W. H. Potter, Beaufort, said he believed Snow Hill would help bear some of the expense involved, which thus far as not been much, according to Mr. Wheatly. After hearing arguments of the opposition, water company attor neys requested a 30-day period to file a brief. This was granted by the utilities commission. Unless an extension is granted on that period, the brief should be in the hands of the utilities com mission next week. Charles W. Davis Funeral Rite Held Sunday The funeral service for Charles Webb Davis, 71, Beaufort, was con ducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist Church, Beaufort. Mr. Davis, who had been ill a long time, died at 2 o'clock Saturday morning at his home. He suffered a heart attack eight weeks ago and returned Monday from veterans' hospital, Durham, to spend the Christmas holidays at home. Mr. Davis was a retired state highway engineer. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Dix on Davis and married the former Ruth Blackwelder of China Grove. Besides his wife, he is survived by a niece, Mrs. Lindley Smith, San Francisco, Cal., and the fol lowing nephews: Dr. John D. Hum ber, heart specialist and surgeon of San Francisco, Cal. ; Robert Lee Humber, Greenville, Rhodes schol ar and state senator from Pitt County; Leslie Davis Jr., Beaufort Fuller Brush dealer; Tom Ivey Da vis, Selma, publisher of the John stonian Sun; the Rev. John D. Da vis, pastor of the Murfreesboro baptist Church; and R. Dowd Da vis, ministerial student at Wake Forest seminary. Mr. Davis was a brother of the late M. Leslie Davis, Beaufort. He was a Navy ensign during World War I, after graduating from both Wake Forest and North Carolina State Colleges. He was division office engineer for the highway commission in Greenville prior to his retirement 10 years ago. He was a former church clerk, member of the choir, and deacon of the First Baptist Church in Greenville. He was a member of the Emeritus Club in Morehead City and a member of the Ameri can Legion Post in Beaufort. Officiating at the funeral service was the Rev. Alec Thompson, pas tor of the First Baptist church. Burial was in the church cemetery. auric* Webb Davis . . . 4M IMrii} By ROGER W. BAUSON Financial Forecaster 1. Naturally, as I am just back from Moscow and Berlin, my first thoughts are what will happen to Berlin in 1960 My answer is defi nitely, "NOTHING WILL HAP PEN." Mr. K will make no more ultimatums; President Eisenhower will continue his peace talks. There fore the Berlin situation will be just the same in 1960 and 1961 as it is today. 2. There will be no World War started between Russia and the United States in 1960. This does not mean that such a war will not come within 10 years; but just now neither country is ready for it. I am convinced of this after my re cent visit to Moscow. 3. Airplane warfare with the dropping of bombs is a thing of the past. We are turning to rocket ry with pinpoint precision. Our ex pensive air bases may gradually be vacated. 4. Moscow is Mr. K's "pride and joy." It is a beautiful city with broad streets and thousands of new apartment houses. Mr. K does not want it destroyed. Furthermore, he wants a reduction in armaments so that he will have money to raise the standard of living in Russia. I forecast he will have to do this in order to hold his power. 5. We first feared a "shooting war"; now we are in a "cold war"; but we will soon be in an "educa tional war." In 1960 the United States will expend far greater ef fort on education. 6. Along with the effort to im prove education during 1960, I fore cast that our teachers will be given a minimum salary of $5,000 and that schools of all states will re ceive federal aid. 7. I forecast that instead of spending so much money on new school buildings, municipalities will give more attention to discipline, promotions, and sifting, and to the teaching of mathematics, physics, and chemistry in both grammar and high schools. 8. I forecast that some of those who have gone into business will seek teaching jobs, which will be a major force in postponing World War III. School teaching will be a part of our national defense. 9. The Russians are afraid of China, which I hope to visit again in 1960. Hence, I forecast that more friendly relations will develop be tween China and the United States during 1960. 10. Space travel to the moon is largely for propaganda purposes and to take our minds off of the military phases of rocketry, sub marines, and breaking the earth's crust. Only the fear of retaliation will prevent the Russians from starting a world war. Political Outlook 11. I will now forecast who the Republican candidates in 1960 will be ? Nixon and Rockefeller. 12. The Democratic candidates cannot be foreeast. Senator Ken nedy thinks he has the nomination "sewed up"; but Johnson and Sy mington. and even Stevenson, have large followings. 13. 1 forecast that relations with Russia will become far more im portant than the question of infla tion. 14. The Republican slogan in 1960 will be. "It it always danger ous to swap horses going across a rapid stream." I therefore fore cast that the Republicans will have at least a 50-50 chance of success in 1960. 15. In fact, on the basis of their slogan. I look for a Republican vic tory, though with a very close mar gin. It. I forecast no reduction in taxes of any consequence during 1960. 17. I predict that present defense expenditures will be reduced and the money spent on rocketry, sub marines, breaking the earth's crust, and education. 18. There will be very little re duction in foreign aid during 1960. 19. 1 forecast an attempt in 1960 to increase tariffs on goods import ed from Germany, Italy, Japan, and other cheap labor countries. 29. 1 expect 1960 to be a "do nothing" year for our Congress. Both parties will be working for continued prosperity. Cost of Living 21. There will be no substantial reduction in living costs during 1960. 22. Th e newly imported cheap, low-priced automobiles are here to stay. Their importation cannot be checked. 23. Electric power rates will be lowered in 1960. 24. Clothing should cost less in 1960. In fact, most textiles and plastics will sell for less in 1960. 25. Soap and all forms of wash ing powder will sell for less in 1960. This applies also to "wonder drugs" and other chemical products. 26. Cost of wooden homes ? due to labor ? will advance in price during 1960. Cement and modern machinery will displace bricklay ing. Hence, there may not be much increase in the cost of building fire proof apartment houses 27. The cost of electronic ma chinery should be higher because of the growing demand for automa tion to offset the rise in wages. 28. Steel products (especially stainless) ? from the tableware used in homes to the steel used to build bridges ? will be in greater demand in 1960. 29. The demand for most food products will increase during 1960. 30. There will be increases in rents, maintenance, and taxes. But supermarkets will compete with one another and the housewife should benefit therefrom. Florida is a good place for mid dle-aged people to buy a home in a ?mall city a? insurance for the time when they fetire. Persons buying such homes should depend upon a check from the North every month and not depend upon getting a job in Florida. Even today in Florida one person in ten is over 65 years of age. Real Estate 31. The price o( city real estate will depend upon its parking privi leges. Wise municipal officials will pull down old two and three-story buildings to make parking lots and municipal garages much more plentiful. 32. The above also applies to suburban real estate. I forecast that new suburban zoning laws will require houses to have vacant ad joining lot* sufficient for present and future parking needs. 33. The demand for modern stores and for centrally located apartments will continue to in crease during 1980. 34. 1 forecast that those building a "single" house for their own oc cupancy will also provide an apart ment for rent. 35. Large commercial farms should be profitable in 1980; but many operators of small farms, not properly located for suburban growth, will sell to some adjoining farmers. 38. Small farms on well-drained land and near enough to a city for future suburban developments should be held. Such farms should some day sell for triple their pres ent price. 37. Seashore property should be held. The government ckn print more bonds and corporations can split and declare stock dividends to make more stocks; but only God can make seashore property. 38. I forecast that real estate taxes will increase during 1960. Wise are property owners who make their rentals "PLUS AN NUAL TAXES." 39. As the Russians gradually move westward like a glacier, tak ing ownership of all property, wise people in Europe will sell their present property and businesses and move to the United States. 40. Revolutions in mining will continue during I960, and you may find that you are living on a val uable iron deposit, if not on a gold mine! Investment Outlook 41. For the first time in the 40 years that I have been preparing these Annual Outlooks, 1 shall not take a position on the Dow-Jones Average for 1960. I am, however, inclined to believe that the stock market in general will hold up at least until after the election. Then there may come a break, which ever party wins the election next November. 42. 1960 will be the year to buy good bonds. United States Govern ment Bonds yielding 5% are a great bargain. Anyone buying them is bound to make money. I also like all non-taxable bonds and also some taxable but convertible bonds. 43. Some chemical stocks will still be a buy in 1960, although they yield little income and are good only as growth stocks. 44. There will be failures by the thousands among those companies now issuing electronic stocks. Elec tronics issues have become a popu lar fad. There is also unemploy ment ahead for many who are now working in electronics factories. 45. The stocks of electric power companies, but not those of large cities, will be in greater demand in 1960. 46. Of all stocks, I forecast that United Fruit may be most in de mand in 1960. 47. I predict that only a few rail roads will be popular during 1960, such as Canadian, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, and perhaps Southern Pacific and Atchison. I am bearish on Pennsylvania Rail road, New York Central, New Haven, and all short lines excipt for the Norfolk & Western, my "pet gravity road." I also fear a short railroad strike. 4ft. Failures will continue to in crease during 1960. 49. I forecast that the huge na tional roadbuilding program will give an uplift to business as it pro gresses. 56. There will be no marked changes in money rates during 1960. Inflation will gradually con tinue. but may not be serious dur ing 1960. The best investment policy dur ing 1960 will continue to be a well diversified portfolio with one-third in stocks for possible growth profits, one-third in bonds for safe ty and income, and one-third in cash in order to have funds avail able for investment in the severe and sudden drop in the stock mar ket which will come some day. Conclusion The three handicaps to American business in 1960 will be increasing installment purchases, the unfair deman. 8 of labor union leaders, and President Eisenhower's physi cal condition. The three hopes for America are our churches, our schools, and our praying parents. Roderick Moore Injured in One Of Carteret's Holiday Accidents Roderick Moore, 28, Markers Is land, was injured in one of tbe numerous accidents which occur red in the county over the long Christmas weekend. Moore was pinned beneath a car at 1:10 a.m. Christmas morning, Friday, when the car turned over on highway 70 live miles cast of Beaufort. Patrolman I. W. Sykes said Moore was in a 1955 Plymouth coupe being driven by Max Barry Willis, Coast Guardsman home on leave. Willis told the patrolman that he was going about 35 miles an hour when a car forced him off the road. His car swerved to the right, back to the left and turned over on its side in a canal. The car rested on Moore's leg, pinning him against the bank until the car was moved. Moore was taken to the More head City hospital by Adair's am bulance He was still confined to the hospital yesterday. Two other accidents occurred ?arly Christmas morning. A 1855 Chevrolet wrecked a half mile west of Newport on highway 70 at 1:45 a.m. Driving the car was Mrs. Edna H. Stuckey, Newport. Patralman Sykes said that the left rear tire blew. Mrs. Stuckey lost control and the car struck a mailbox and a driveway abutment. A man who was riding with her was thrown through the windshield but not injured, the patrolman re ported. Mrs. Stuckey was not hurt. The car was a total loss. Anthony G. Willis, Beaufort, was charged with reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the road, at 4 a.m. Friday in Glendale Park. Willis told the patrolman that he and hp wife had left a party and were going home when, as he ap proached highway 70, he was talk ing to his wife, ran off the road, and hit a driveway culvert. Both the car, a 1901 Plymouth, and the culvert were torn up. No one was hurt. A bog was killed at U:U p.m. Saturday on highway 24 two miles cast of Bogue. Gene A. Blanton, USAF, route 1 Newport, home on leave, said he was headed toward Morehead City and as he approached M. L. Chad wick's (tore, a hog ran on to the highway in front of the car. Blanton was driving a 1957 Ford. Damage to the car was estimated at $200. Identity of the hog's own er was not known. An accident occurred at 7:14 p.m. Christmas eve at Davis and another at about noon Wednesday in front of the Rex restaurant. As a result of the Davis accident, William Otis Willis. North River, was charged with driving with im proper brakes. Willis, in a 1948 Chevrolet, ran into the rear of Mar vin Earl Murphy, Davis, who was driving a 1954 Chevrolet, according to deputy sheriff C. H. Davis, who investigated. No one was hurt. Details oa the accident in front of the Rex were not available at press time yesterday.