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ALL WHO READ READ THE NEWS-TIMES CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES ">< 49th YEAR. NO. 36. THREE SECTIONS EIGHTEEN PAGES MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 1960 PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS Town Board Adopts Budget; Tax Set at Former Rate, $2 Morehead JC's Elect Officers ? Clifton Lynch Chosen At President ? JC District to Meet Here This Weekend Morehead City Jaycees held their annual election of officers Monday night and Clifton Lynch was elected president to succeed Bill Singleton. The office of internal vice-presi dent went to Horace Willis and Dick Spears was named external vice-president. The treasurer for the coming year will be Gordon Willis and the state director L. G. Dunn. The five new directors elected were Tommy Bennett, Bil ly Oglesby, Tommy Ballou, Paul Cordova and John Edwards. The officers will be installed at a banquet May 9 at the Blue Rib bon restaurant. The banquet will be held in conjunction with the Beaufort Jaycee club. Discussed at great length at Monday's meeting was the district Jaycee meeting to be held tomor row and Sunday at the Biltmore Hotel. Chairman of the meeting, Tom my Ballou, announced the follow ing schedule for the two days. Sat urday: registration, 1 p.m.; cock tail party, 5 p.m. and dance, 9 p.m. Sunday's business meeting will get under way at 9 a.m. Further details on the meeting, an annual affair in Morehead City, appear on page 2. ? Beaufort town commissioners* have adopted a $114,378.57 budget for 1960-61 and levied a $2 tax rate. This puts the tax rate back to where it was prior to revaluation of property in 1956. In May 1956, the commissioners cut the rate from $2 to $1.75. Morehead City found it necessary to raise its rate this year also. The 25-cent increase in the Beau fort rate will go toward paying off the town debt. The levy for debt service will be $1. The rest of the levy will meet administrative ex penses, general operating ex penses, police, fire and street ex penses. Ronald Ear! Mason, town clerk, said that the increase in the debt service rate should put the town out of debt by 1972, two years be foie the bonds fall due. It is not known, as yet, he added, how much the $2 levy will produce in total revenue, since the tax scrolls have not been made up. In other word*, the total valuation of real and personal property is not yet known. The board thought it advisable, however, to draft a budget now, rather than wait until after the fis cal yckr starts July 1. The budget calls for the follow ing : debt service $35,694.28, ad ministrative $12,309.30, general op- ! erations $12,245, police department | $19,172, fire department $11,520, and street $23,437.90 Last yeftr't budget was $117,906. ; Slight cuts in all departments made possible the lower budget for 1960-61. Mr. Mason has been authorized to appoint a deputy tax collector to collect back taxes at a commis sion of 25 per cent. He also reports that he has re ceived from the Local Government commission a list of the town's bonds and years they fall due. The town tax notices are sched uled to go out the latter part of May. International Relations Chairman Speaks to B&PW mrs. juiu Holt, International re-? lations chairman, presented the program. Women in Different Parts of the World, Tuesday night at the meeting of the Carteret Business and Professional Wom en's club. The program followed dinner at the Rex restaurant. The club voted to enter a float in the street parade during Beau- 1 fort's 251st anniversary celebra- ' tion. Funds were also approved for sending two girls to Girls State, 1 a student from Beaufort and a ' student from Morehcad City. Mrs. Floyd Chadwick described Girls State activities. Also approved was a donation 1 to the Cancer Crusade. Mrs. Frank 1 Sample, vice-president, who pre- 1 sided in the absence of the presi dent, Mrs. W. I. Loftin, reminded ; club members of the state con vention at Blowing Rock June 10, 1 11 and 12. I State officers will be elected at i that time. Mrs. Marshall Ayscue 1 of the Carteret club is running for i state treasurer. Mrs. Eva Johnson, club trcasur- 1 or, reminded members that Jlo in 1 annual dues arc payable next ' month. I Mrs. Clem Johnson reported on I the recent district meeting at Greenville. Attending from the I Carteret club were Mrs. C. L. : Beam, Mrs. W. I. Loftin, Mrs. i Sample, Mrs. Clem Johnson, Mrs. Ayscue and Mrs. David Merrill. The treasurer's report was pre sented by Mrs. Eva Johnson and the minutes were read by Mrs. Clem Johnson. Three Deputy Sheriffs 1 Go to Fayetteville j Attending the meeting of the Eastern North Carolina Law En- I forcement association this week at i Fayetteville were deputy sheriffs i Marshall Ayscue, Bobby Bell and i C. H. Davis. Sheriff Hugh Salter announces i that the next meeting of the as- < sociation, Sept. 21, will be at Cher- t ry Point. I Beaufort JC's Elect Officers Beaufort Jay (pes met Monday night at the Scout hall and elected officers for the coining year. Named as president of the club to succeed George Murray Thomas was Bob Safrit. Clyde Owens is the newly-elected vice-president. Bill Ipock will serve as secretary. Dick Dickinson was named treasurer. The three direc tors elected were Osborne Owens, Guy Smith and Herbert Rice. The new officers will be installed at the annual installation banquet May 9 which is being held again this year jointly with the More head City Jaycees. Mr. Ipock was appointed to meet with the More head City Jaycees to plan the ban quet. George Stovall. manager of Car olina Power and Light, attended the meeting and presented the Jay cees with a bill of sale on three light transformers at the football field. The transformers, paid for by the month over a period of several fears, arc now owned by the Jay cees. Three to b? Tried May 10 For Making Local Brow Scheduled for trial in county re corder's court Tuesday, May 10, ?rc Leo Lawrence and Garrett Gil ikin. Otway, and John Smith, Ne gro, who are charged with opera ion of a still at Otway. The three were apprehended at a itill in the vicinity of the Leo Law rence home by ABC officer Mar ihall Ayscue, other county officers, ?nd federal tax unit men. Warrants for the three were iworn out April 13. A. 11. James, ;lerk of superior court, laid yes crday that each has been released rom jail under $500 bond. Democrats to Meet Saturday, May 14 A. H. James, chairman of the County Democratic committee, announces that the county con vention will be at 11 a.m. Satur day, May 14, at the courthouse, Beaufort. Purpose of the meeting will be to elect a county chairman, and delegates to the state convention at noon Thursday, May 19, in Memorial auditorium, Raleigh. Precinct meetings. Mr. Jamps said, are to be held Saturday, May 7. Carteret Boy Scout Patrols Win Ribbons Eight Carteret Boy Scout patrols won blue ribbons at the weekend Jubilee Camporee of the East Caro lina council at Rich Square. Eight patrols won red ribbons, one won a white ribbon and three won the green participation ribbon. The patrols and their troop num bers, as released by council head quarters are the following: Blue ribbons: Crow patrol of troop 371, Tarheel, Stag, Thunder bird and Wolf patrols of troop 130, Wolf, Apache and Panther patrols of troop 446. Red ribbons: Crow and Eagle pa trols of troop 334, Beaver, Cobra and Eagle patrols of troop 61, Sleuth and Buffalo patrols of troop 130, and Red Bird patrol of troop 448. White ribbon: Yellow Bud patrol of troop 449. Green ribbons: Hawk, Panther and Wolf patrols of troop 456. Thirty-five hundred Scouta and leaders participated in the cam poree Four hundred three patrols camped on the ISO-acre camp site. Ethan Davts Jr., Morehead City, served as one of the two associate chiefs of the camporee. Highlights featured a helicopter demonstration from the Seymour Johnson Air Force base at Golds boro. The rescue was staged from a pond on the camporee grounds, and the victim was delivered to a spot in the center of the camporee grounds; also campfire programs by the Order of the Arrow, in which Indian dancing depicted le gends of the Red Men. Accidents were kept to a mini mum during the camporee, with, only a few assorted cuts, two cases of measles and one broken shin bone. The first aid team from Camp Lejeune Marine base, stated that they were amazed that in an encampment as large as the cam poree, so few accidents could hap pen. Chairmen Will Help in Drama Committer chairmen for Un known Seas, the drama to be pre sented July 7 and 8 during Beau fort's 231st anniversary celebra tion, have been announced by Mrs. Grayden Paul, author and director. They follow: Music chairman and assistant to the author, Mrs. Charles Hasaell; business manager, Mrs. Wiley Lewis; publicity, Mrs. Gene Smith; tickets and programs, Mri. Robert Russell; costuming, Mrs. Charles Cheek and Mrs. L. G. Dunn. Stage settings, George Murray Thomas Jr. and the Beaufort Jay eeea; lighting, Carl Hataell; hair styles and makeup. Mrs. David Hill; ushers, Mrs. William Loftin; flowers, Mrs. William Thomas; properties, Mrs. T. H. Potter; fur niture, Mrs. Julius Duncan. The chairmen met Monday night at the home of Mrs. Wiley Lewis to discuss plans for the drama. The cast of characters will be an nounced soon. Youth to Serve Two-Year Term t Pat Wells Violates Suspended Sentence ? Disciplinary Problem Goes to Higher Court A Swansboro youth. Pal Wells. Tuesday was sentenced to two years in jail and roadwork for vio lation of terms of a suspended sen tence. Wells was one of three youths apprehended in a theft at the Rip-Tide drive-in near Swans boro. At the time, he was under a suspended sentence of Feb. 19, 1959. In other court action judge Lam bert Morris sent to superior court the case against Newport principal E. B. Comer. Comer was charged with assault on a minor. The charge grew out of an inci dent at the Newport school 'in which Comer allegedly , spanked several youths when they refused to stop throwing pieces of coal against the side of a school build ing during a night-time school function. The suit was filed by A. B. (Tom) Garner, father of one of I the boys. inner urtenrtants, charges and the findings o( the court were as follows : Artie Robert Nelson? Having im proper registration. Bond forfeit ed. Ruby Spear bcolt ? Failing to stop for a stop sign. Pnnd forfeit ed. Lonnic Whitley? Violation fishing laws. Bond forfeited. Lloyd Edward Cannady Jr.? Having expired license plates. Paid costs. Harry Foster Taylor? Having no operator's license, driving drunk and possession of non tax paid whiskey. Defendant requested jury trial and was bound to superior court under bond of $200. Ruth Pierson Johnson? Careless and reckless driving and failing to stop at a stop sign, $15 and costs. Early Thomas Taylor ? Posses sion of non-tax paid whiskey De fendant requested Jury trial and bond set at $25. Billy Ray Mozingo ? Improper passing. Paid costs. Gerald Albert Lovcjoy ? Speed ing, following too close. $15 and court costs. Marie E. MacLcllan ? Issuing two bad checks. Ordered to pay court costs and checks. John Joseph Chivaletto ? Care less and reckless driving and driv ing on the wrong side of the road; $10 and costs. George Severn Britt Jr.? Driv ing drunk and driving on the wrong side of the road. The first count was amended to read careless and reckless driving. Found guilty of careless and reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the road; $100 and costs. James Wilbur Taylor ? Assault on an officer, costs. Joseph James Martin ? Driving on thew rong side of the road; costs. George E. Campbell ? Non-sup port and abandonment. Not pros ecuted. Paul Blackburn Mitchcll Jr.? Speeding, costs. Freddie Lee Evans ? No chaf feur's license, costs. Charles Pixley Wilkins ? Speed ing, costs. Ervin Luther Corey? Failing to stop at a stop sign, costs. Kenneth Dean Lewis ? Speeding, costs. Elijah Dixon Jr.? Driving on the wrong side of the road, coats. William Hicks Holloway? Speed ing, coats. Richard Stanhope Harrington Speeding, $5 and court costa. Paul Eddie Waycaster ? Speed ing, $10 and court costs. Drexel G. Burleson ? Allowing Harold Moss to drive while drunk, $100 and court coats. Continued were 109 cases. To Get Award Mrs. Frances R. Krouse of More head City will become eligible this month for a service emblem repre senting ten years of telephone com pany service. The award is in the form of a gold pin. Mrs. Krouse is employed by Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a service as sistant in the traffic department, Morehcad City. JC's Will Sponsor County Beauty Pageant June 8 Any girl in the county who is be tween 18 and 28 is eligible to en ter the Miss Carteret County beau ty pageant Wednesday, June 8. at the Oceanana Resort, Atlantic Beach. The pageant is being sponsored by Beaufort and Morehcad City Jaycees. This year marks the first time that there will be u Car teret entrant in the Miss North Carolina beauty contest. In the past there have been a Miss Beau fort and a Miss Morehead City. Winner of the Carteret contest will be entered in the state pax rant. That pageant will be July 20-23 at Charlotte. General chairmen of the county pageant are Bob Safrit and Paul Cordova. Appearing in THE NEWS-TIMES next week will be an official pag eant entry blank. Girls interested Old Pigott Homestead Photo by F. C. Salisbury This is reproduction of a water color of the old Pigott home stead on Calico creek. Some of the scenes in the forthcoming historical drama, Bonnie Blue Sweetheart, take place in and around the Pigott home. The watercolor was done by Cecil B. Elliott, associate pro fessor of architecture, School of Design, State College, from photos sent to him by F. C. Salis bury, Morchcad City. Bonnie Blue Sweetheart is one of two historical dramas to be given in the county this summer. The dates for Bonnie Blue Sweet heart are June 10 and 11 in Morehead City. The other his torical drama. Unknown Seas, will be presented in Beaufort July 7 and 8. Bonnie Blue Sweetheart was first presented last year. Un known Seas was presented for two years early in the 1940's. Both dramas have brought praise .<nd aeclaim from those who saw them. Beaufort Postmaster Lists New Schedule for Mail Arrival , Dispatch -? Pier to Go Up At Cape Lookout The Corps of Engineers, Wil mington, announces that two per mits were issued Monday, one to build a pier at Cape Lookout and the other to remove shoals in the Silver Lake entrance channel at Ocracoke. The pier permit was issued to L. N. Moore, PO Box 463, More head City. The sketch for the pier shows that it will be 305 feet long, 6 feet wide with a 100-foot tee at the end. II will be located in Cape Look out bight on the southeast shoulder near the lighthouse, where Bar i den's channel joins the bight. It i is presumed that the pier will be used for sportsfishing. The dredging permit was issued to the Sea Level, Atlantic and Ocracoke Ferry Co. It permits dredging of 2,500 cubic yards of material. The ferry, Sea Level, has had difficulty getting in and out of the harbor at Silver Lake. The en trance channel is part of a federal project but funds for the work arc not available. Tide Table Tides at the Beaufort Bar HIGH LOW Friday, April 2? 10:48 a.m. 10:53 p.m. 4:35 a.m. 4:33 p.m. Saturday, April 30 11:33 a m,. 11:32 p.m. 5:12 a.m. 5:03 p.m. Sunday, May 1 12:20 a.m. 5:52 a m. 5:34 p.m. Monday, May Z 12:13 a.m. 1:04 p.m. 6:42 a.m. 6:23 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 12:56 a.m. 1:04 p.m. 7:50 a.m. 8:07 p.m. ' J. P. Belts, Beaufort postmas ter, announced yesterday the new schedule for dispatch and arrival of mail at Beaufort postoffice. Mail will leave the Beaufort postoffice at the following times. For Atlantic and points east: 7:30 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. daily ex cept Sunday and holidays. For points west (also points north and south): 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Anyone wanting mail to leave Beaufort on any of the above schedules should have the mail in the postoffice 30 minutes prior to the times listed. To make the last dispatch at 6:30, mail will be picked up Mr. Betts said, from the mail box at Craven and Front streets and from the box in front of the postoffice at 6 p.m. Other boxes will have no tices on them advising the mailer where the mail should be deposit ed if they want it to leave at 8:30 p.m. Mail coming into Beaufort will arrive at 6:35 a.m., 8:30 a.m. and 5:05 p.m. from points north, south . and west. Mail from east of Beaufort will ! arrive in Beaufort at 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The new schedule goes into ef fect tomorrow as Beaufort and other postal districts in the county become a part of the new metro- : politan plan. This plan has as its objective the delivery of first class ; mail and newspapers the day after the mail is posted, providing the mail is destined for a point within ! a 200 mile area. Carteret is a part of the Rocky 1 Mount metro district. Under the new schedule, there t are two mails in and out of Beau- i fort daily for points cast. Former- i ly, there was only one. After to- < day, there no longer will be an < 8:15 a.m. mail dispatch west. < in appearing in the pageant should fill in the blank and mail it to THE NEWS-TIMES. The entries wUl be turned over to the Jaycees. Mr. Safrit and Mr. Cordova in vite civic organizations to sponsor contest entrants. There is no en try fee. The girls will appear in evening dress, bathing suit and present a talent number in the county con test. This same procedure is fol lowed in the state contest. The Pastels will provide music at the outdoor pageant at the Oceanana. Spectators will be seat ed at tables where refreshments will be served. The county winner will receive a $150 wardrobe plus prizes up to $50 in value. In case of rain, the pageant will be the following night, Thursday, June 9. Beaufort Rural Fire Association To Meet May 6 Members of the Beaufort Rural Fire association will meet at 8 p.m Friday. May 6, at the court house, Beaufort. L. D. Springle. chairman of the association, asks that all residents of rural Beaufort attend. This includes persons at Merrimon, highway 101 to Core Creek bridge, highway 70 to Ward creek bridge, Jones Village, West Beaufort, Glendale Park, Highland Park, Lennoxville road, Ann and Front streets extended, and the Beau fort Morchead causeway. Mr. Springle asks that anyone who is not a member of the as sociation attend the meeting at the courthouse to learn the objectives of the rural association. Mr. Springle said, "If you are a resident of the area of Beaufort under consideration for annexa tion, the rural trudk is the only one Which will rcspvad if ydir are la need. "It will be driven by a volun teer. The truck will cover the area on highway 70 to Ward creek bridge, highway 101 to Core creek bridge. Merrimon, Jones Village, [>lendale Park, Highland Park, Hancock Park, Lennoxville road, Ann and Front streets extended. West Beaufort and the Bcaufort Morehead causeway." The initial fee for joining is $10. Annual dues are $5. Fees should be sent to John Miller, c/o Hatsell Electric Co., Beaufort, or to Mrs. W. J. Ipock, Box 389, Beaufort. Stove Blaxes Up The Morchead City fire depart* ment was called to extinguish a fire Wednesday night at the Na :ional Guard armory. The fire started in the heating unit of a field stove while the stove was being cleaned. Guardsmen had the blaze extinguished by the time the fire lepartmcnt arrived. Norwood Young, Beaufort, Elected Head of Seashore Highway Group ? Beaufort Resurfaces s Part of Two Streets n Two streets in Beaufort have f< been resurfaced recently, the first d block of Craven street and part of * the block of Pollock between Front jJ and Ann streets. i( Ronald Earl Mason, town clerk, said that if all property owners in- I] volvcd sign the petition, the block S between Broad street and Cedar P an Craven will be paved by a A commercial contractor in June. IS Mr. Mason said that ridges on h all the streets (caused by asphalt buckling) arc being cut down and filled in. This is expected to do h much to make the streets smooth er riding. a Norwood Young, Beaufort, has cen clcctcd president of the All eashore Highway assoeiation. Others elected at the recent iccting at Ocracokc were Mont )rd Garrish, Ocracoke, vice-preai ent from division 1; Mrs. Clayton 'ulcher Jr., Atlantic, vice-presi ent from division 2, and Glenn uckcr, Carolina Beach, vicc-prcs lent from division 3. Directors from thin area are toward Brugh, Ocracoke; R. L. tailings Jr., New Bern; W. H. 'otter, Beaufort; Jimmy Wallace, tlantic Beach; Moses Howard, lewport, and Rufus Butncr, Morc ead City. J. R. Sanders, Morehead City, is reasurer, and J. A. DuBois, More cad City, secretary. The association went on record s follows : Southern Builds Strong Case for Equal Rail Rates Southern Railway and the State Utilities commission piled high and deep this week, at Raleigh, evi dence in favor of equalizing rail freight rates at Morehead City and Wilmington. The evidence was presented before the Interstate Commerce commission examiner, Robert Boyd. The hearing is continuation of a hearing started the last week in January at Wilmington. Other bearings on the ICC examiner's schedule prevented conclusion of the hearing then. It was resumed this paat Monday in the education building at Raleigh. The city of Wilmington and rail roads that compete with Southern are objecting to rate* Southern charges on the cargoes it moves by rail into and out of the port at Morehead City. The rates make it possible for 'a shipper to move his goods out of Morehead at ap proximately the same cost as mov ing them through Wilmington. Before Southern cut its rate*, it coat more to move many products through Morehead City. Ttu, cMspeting railroads and the port city of Wilmington a?e ob jecting to Southern's action. Clarence H. Noah, member at the State Utilities commission, told examiner Boyd Wednesday that the utilities commission believes rates on import and export traffic through the two port cities should be, with certain exceptions, the 'same. Represeatatives of five North Carolina firms, that import or ex port, testified Tuesday in favor o i equal rates at Morehead City and Wilmington. They were S. V. Davenport, vice president of Refabco, Charlotte; John R. Kellam of Pat Brown Lumber Co., High Point; C. H. Leary, traffic- manager of Chat ham Manufacturing Co., Elkin; Arnold Beerkens, president of Tim ber Products Co., Murphy;, and Albert H. Lathrop, general traffic manager for American E n k a Corp.. Enka. Fred ?>bb, Grrenville, affiliat ed with the Carolina Grain Co., which exports grain through More head City, testified Monday in fav or a i Southern's competitive rates to and from Morehead City. Opponents of equalisation claim that the lower rates at Morehead City would eauae a rate war among railroads. A. C. Henderson, Southern traf fic manager, said Tuesday that rail systems in the South have not always adhered to a so-called "freight traffic managers' formu la" which Atlantic Coast Line says Southern is violating. He testified, "Based on my ex perience, I would concludc there have certainly been Just as many cases and probably more where the . . . rales were not determined by use of the basic freight traffic manager's formula than there were cases where the . . . rates were determined by use of such formula." S. JL Goodman, general traffic manager for Southern, said that the formula under question was designed in 1928 by railroada in the South as a "guide." He said the Southern Freight as sociation, made up of railroad rep resentatives, has never formally approved the formula and added that economic and transportation conditions arc different in the South now than they were 30 years ago. "Certainly you can't attract traf fic unless you've got equal rates," Mr. Goodman said. "I think we owe Morcbcad City a chaocc." Mayor George W. Dill, Morehead ;ity, who testified at the hearing n Wilmington, attended the hear ng Monday. George McNeill, forehead City town attorney, it issisting Southern in its ease. Speaking against equal rates, in iddition to Atlantic Coast Line at oroeys, are Cicero Yow, Wilming on city attorney; F. A. Downing, lirector of Wilmington's Bureau of lates, Industry and Commerce; ind representatives of the Norfolk i Western Railroad, Seaboard Air ?ine Railroad, and the South Car ilioa State Ports Authority. ? To urge the State Highway commission to have the channel deepened for the ferry, landing on Ocracokc from Hattcras. ? To ask the state to take steps to prevent further erosion at Hat teras and Ocracokc. ? Passed a resolution reassuring the governing bodies of Princess Ann county and Virginia Beach, Va., Currituck and Dare county commissioners, of the All-Seashore Highway association's support of an outer banks highway from Nags Head to Virginia Beach. ? Asked the Corps of Engineer* to maintain Wainwright channel at 7 feet. ? Reaffirmed the request for a ferry across the lower Cape Fear river. Weather Observer Reports on Rainfall April is traditionally the month tf spring showers and this month has been no exception. A total of 3.6 Inches was recorded between April 1 and 27, according to weath er observer Stamey Davis. Davii reports that this is about aver age for this time of the year. The biggest rainfall of the month oc curred on the 4th when 2.64 inches Ml over a 14-hour period. Yes terday brought more rain. Temperature ranges and wind dl> rcctions for the past week follow: High Low wiad Friday 73 62 SW Sunday 67 62 SW Tuesday 75 63 SW Wednesday 77 6* SW Saturday 65 61 SW Monday ... 72 63 SW
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