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THE NEWS-TIMES
60th YEAR, NO. 43.
TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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Come Thursday, it will be June and baseball will be in full swing all over the country. This is a scene
of opening day ceremonies of the Morchcad City Little League Wednesday. A new 50-star American
flag, donated by the Moose, flics in the center background.
Property Owner Says Bill Should
Force Companies to Write Insurance
A Beaufort property owner has
proposed that a bill be introduced
in the legislature compelling in
surance companies to write insur
ance on waterfront properties in
the county on an “assigned risk”
basis.
The’ property owner, who asked
that his name not be used, is dis
turbed over the fact that some in
surance companies will no longer
insure property in Carteret areas
where there has been extensive
storm damage.
lie said he felt that people arc
not generally aware of this situa
tion.
(The county recently adopted a
“hurricane building code” at the
request of the county planning
commission. The planning com
mission based its plea for urgency
in adopting the code on the fact
that insurance companies are pull
ing out of this area. The same
occurred in Miami, Fla., after se
vere storms there and one of the
main factors that encouraged re
turn of the companies was adop
tion in the Miami area of a code
which required erection of wind
resistant buildings).
The Beaufort, resident has writ
ten Charles Golc^, commissioner of
insurance, asking that the commis
sioner use his influence to obtain
a bill which would compel insur
ance companies to carry insurance
in the “danger areas” such as the
western sector of Front street,
Beaufort, B c a u f o r t-Morchead
causeway, Atlantic Beach cause
way, Morehead City waterfront and
the oceanfront.
He said the rate for the insur
ance should be based on the loss
ratio, adding, “The people must be
honest and fair in reporting
losses.’*
He pointed out — as insurers
have been warning ever since Don
na — that property non-insurable
is non - mortgageable. Lending
agencies will not loan money on
property that can’t be insured.
Four Attend
Export Meeting
Four county residents attended
a conference at New Bern Thurs
day relative to development of
North Carolina export business.
They were Walter Zingelmann,
Walter Friedcrichs, Frank Pigford
and J. A. DuBois.
Speaking at the meeting was
Joel New, Greensboro, of the US
Department of Commerce.
It was pointed out that North
Carolina businessmen could find
new markets overseas if they
would take advantage of the op
portunity to ship through North
Carolina’s ports. Most of the
ships leaving Morehead City, for
example, carry refrigerated car
go, which could include seafood.
Any manufacturer or business
man interested in exports is in
vited to contact Mr. DuBois at the
office of the Greater Morehead
City chamber of commerce, Hotel
Fort Macon.
Firemen Called
The Beaufort fire department
answered an ftlarm at 12:50 Sat
urday afternoon. The fire was a
small blaze that broke out in a
house at Pine and Queen streets
owned by Sam Green. The origin
of the fire is unknown. Damage
to one room of the dwelling was
minor.
“Compulsory insurance,” as this^
type would be if insurance com
panies were compelled to write it,
is detested by insurance com
panies. It compels them to take
bad risks and, they point out, in
creases the cost of insurance for
those who are good risks.
They cite compulsory automobile
insurance as a case in point. An
18.7 per cent increase in auto lia
bility insurance rates for passenger
cars in this state has just been re
quested.
“Compulsory insurance,” insur
ance companies say, is “socialized
insurance.” It deprives the indi
vidual of a certain amount of free
dom and in the guise of “protect
ing” all motorists, penalizes them
excessively for using an automo
bile.
Relative to availability of insur
ance on waterfront property, a
Morehead City insurance agent was
contacted and asked if any com
panies will insure the specific
waterfront property in this county
that was mentioned above.
He said that several companies
will insure “any reasonable and
feasible pieces of property” in
those areas.
At exorbitant rates? he was ask
ed.
He said the rates were fair and
reasonable. He pointed out that
obtaining insurance on poorly con
structed or old dwellings or busi
ness places in waterfront areas is
difficult.
Getting Ready
James Lee Pittman and Jim*
my Pittman work on the trawl
aboard the Edith M, Morehead
City, preparatory to the start
of the inland-waters shrimping
season early Monday. Channel
netters had good catches at
Markers Island and Swansboro
Saturday night
Edgar Hibbs Will
Seek Sheriff's Post
Edgar llibbs, Newport, has an
nounced his intention to seek the
nomination for sheriff in the pri
maries next spring.
Mr. Hibbs, a Newport business
man, is a former town commis
sioner and former mayor of New
port.
If the present sheriff, Hugh
Salter, is appointed federal mar
shal for the eastern district of
North Carolina, as predicted, he
will not be seeking re-election.
If he accepts the appointment
before his term expires, it is ex
pected that chief deputy Bobby
Bell will fill his unexpired term.
Coast Guard Gets
Cruiser Going Again
A 35-foot cabin cruiser ran
aground in Boguc Sound Saturday
morning and was refloated by
Coast Guardsmen from the Fort
Macon station.
The cruiser, Tamara, was on an
inland waterway course for
Wrightsville Beach when it hit bot
tom.
Fort Macon dispatched the 40
footcr to the scene. The crew
aboard the 40-footer was J. H.
Pittman, BM-1; Sammy Salter,
SN and I. D. Lewis, EN-2.
Dr. A. P. Chestnut, director of
the Institute of Fisheries Re
search, UNC, Morehead City,
said trial drags for shrimp in
local waters showed shrimp run
ning about 40-45 count per pound,
heads off.
No one is making any predic
tions as to what the coming sea
son will bring.
CPAs, Wives
Will Convene
At Morehead
Chapel Hill—Two hundred per
sons, certified public accountants
and their wives from throughout
the state, are expected in More
head City June 8-10, for the 42nd
annual convention of the North
Carolina Association of CPAs.
Plans for the event have been
announced from state headquar
ters of the association by J. Ncve
land Brand Jr., Wilmington, presi
dent.
Election of new officers, an ad
dress by a prominent Cincinnati,
Ohio CPA and an open forum will
highlight the meeting at the Bilt
more Motor hotel.
Guest speaker for the technical
session at 9 a m. Friday, June 9,
will be William P. Camm of Cin
cinnati, a partner in the firm of
Arthur Andersen & Co. lie will
speak on The CPA Consultation
Service.
Robert C. Merritt, vice-president
and trust officer of Wachovia Bank
and Trust Co., Winston-Salem, will
head a group of panelists for the
open forum Saturday morning,
June 10.
Others will include Sncthen P.
Harris Jr. of Henderson, a CPA
and partner in the firm of W. H.
Phillips & Co.; Frederick K. Gil
liam, a CPA and partner in the
firm of Gilliam & Moore, Burling
ton; and William 11. Wcstphal, CPA
and partner in the firm of A. M.
Pullen & Co., Greensboro.
150 Take Part in Bridge
Tournament at Beach Hotel
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Doctors Help
Migrant Workers
I)r. S. W. Thompson and Dr. L.
J. Norris., both of Morehcad City,
will travel with the migrant min
istry medical trailer early this
week to give medical attention <te
migrant workers.
Trips with the trailer are made
at night. Dr. Herbert Webb was
the doctor on Thursday night’s
visit to the D. T. Lewis camp at
Otway. Nineteen of the 65 workers
in the camp were treated.
Assisting Dr. Webb were Miss
Gcorgie Hughes, R. M. Williams,
the Rev. J. P. Mansfield, Mrs.
Harry Patterson and Mrs. Carrie
Johnson.
The trailer consists of two small
rooms, one in which the worker is
registered and other information
obtained, and another room where
he is seen by the doctor.
Funds are needed to buy medical
supplies. The migrant ministry
committee earnestly requests that
churches and individuals contribute
now to the migrant ministry pro
gram.
Checks may be sent to the Rev.
Corbin Cooper, Morchead City, or
Mr. Mansfield, Camp Glenn.
Mayors Return
From Capital
Mayor W. H. Potter, Beaufort,
and mayor George Dill, Morehead
City, returned Thursday' afternoon
by plane from Washington, D. C.,
where they attended the Rivers
and Harbors Congress and confer
red with federal officials relative
to municipal problems.
They went to Washington Tues
day, attended the rivers and har
bors projects hearing Wednesday
morning, conferred with congress
men and senators in the afternoon
and Thursday morning paid some
official calls on government agen
cies.
That afternoon Rivers and Har
bors delegates took a trip down
the Potomac. Mayor Dill said,
"I've been on a boat and so has
Piggie, (mayor Potter), so we de
cided to come home.”
North Carolina projects consid
ered at the Congress were stabili
zation of Oregon inlet, restoring
intracoastal waterway from Jack
sonville, Fla., to Norfolk to project
depth, and survey of the Cape Fear
river with a view to future im
provements.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, May 30
8:08 a.m.
8:24 p.m.
2:24 a m.
2:24 p.m.
Wednesday, May 31
8:58 a.m.
9:12 p.m.
3:09 a.m.
3:09 p.m.
Thursday, June 1
9:45 a.m.
10:08 p.m.
3:56 a.m.
3:50 p.m.
Friday, June 2
10:55 a.m.
11:08 p.m.
4:42 a.m.
4:45 p.m.
Town Whaling Museum Will
Reopen Thursday for Summer
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WHALE FISHERY
At ShacKleford BanKs,
six miles southeast by
boat, was located a
whale fishery of the
!8th and 19th centuries.
Photo by Roy Eubunks
At Pollock and Ann streets this historical marker tells of the whale
fishery that once existed on Shackleford banks. At the south end of
Pollock street is the whaling museum, established last summer by
the Beaufort Historical association.
► About 150 players from Eastern
North Carolina competed in the
annual three-day bridge tourna
ment sponsored by the Carteret
County Bridge League at the Atlan
tic Beach hotel over the weekend.
Afternoon and evening sessions
were held Friday, Saturday and
Sunday with the following winners:
Friday afternoon men’s pair,
first, Brad Reynolds and Dr.
Moore of Wilmington; second, Jack
Windlcy and Harry Saunders.
Friday afternoon women’s pair,
first, Mrs. W. A. Mace and Mrs.
Laura Wallace; second, Mrs. Sarah
Mayo and Mrs. N. B. Thomas.
Friday evening mixed pair, first,
Mrs. Virginia Jones and W. W.
Elliott; second, Mr. and Mrs. A1
Dewey.
Saturday afternoon open pair,
first, Mrs. J. H. Dowdy and Mrs.
J. A. Mercer; A1 Dewey and Dr.
Charles Duffy. The winners of
this event won the Bonner trophy,
which they will keep for one year.
Saturday evening open pair con
solation, first, Mrs. W. A. Mace
and Mrs. George R. Wallace; sec
ond, Mrs. James Rumley and Mrs.
C. R. Wheatly Sr.
Sunday team of four sessions,
first, Mrs. B. O. Ketnef^ S. K.
lledgccock, Harry Saunders and
Jack Windlcy; second, Mrs. D. J.
Lewis, A1 Dewey, Earl Jones and
W. W. Elliott.
Schools Close Today
Today is the last day of school
in the county.
Crew Tracks Satellite
Photo by Norwood Young
Tracking the brain satellite
Juno II in Carteret county Wed
nesday was this mobile tracking
station and crew, located near
Atlantic for the past three
months. The unit belongs to Ben
dix Radio Corp., and is under
contract to the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion (NASA).
It is a “microlock” tracking
station (a quick-look station),
and is utilized to give quick in
formation on satellite launchings
at Cape Canaveral, such as
Joseph Sovick
Finds Lost Net
Bernice Smith, Salter Path, has
his new nylon channel net back.
It was found by Joseph Sovick,
Morehead City. Mr. Sovick read
about loss of the net Tuesday in
THE NEWS-TIMES.
Sheriff Hugh Salter asked if
anyone found it that they con
tact his office. Mr. Sovick did
just that.
Mr. Smith lost the net off the
back of a pickup truck as he was
going through Morehead City Fri
day night, May 19. Today he is
i one happy man. Nylon nets arc
| expensive.*
Request Made to Erect
Signs at New Marina
Sherman T. Rock, Morehead
City, has applied to Army en
gineers for permission to place
four channel marker pilings and
two two-pile structures with signs
in Boguc Sound on the north side
of the inland waterway opposite
navigation marker No. 9.
The structures are to mark the
entrance channel to Spooner’s
Creek harbor. Plans showing the
work may be seen in the engineers’
office, Wilmington, and at the
Morehead City postoffice.
Objections, if any, will be ac
cepted by Army engineers until
June 26, 1961.
Girls to Solicit
Teen-age girls will make calls
in Morehead City this week to ob
tain money for the Red Cross, ac
cording to Garland Scruggs, coun
ty Red Cross chairman.
whether or not a launching has
gone into orbit, and if so, in
what direction. It picks up sig
nals from the launched satellite
and records them on paper and
tape-recording machines.
Wednesday’s launching was re
corded as a failure when the
Juno’s second stage failed to
fire/ Shown operating the sta
tion are Bendix employees, (left
to right) James Porter, techni
cian, Robert Scalezitti, field en
gineer, Charles Miller and James
Byaa, technicians.
Spanish i nvasion Scheduled
If Funds Are Raised
The Beaufort Historical associa-'
lion's whaling museum on Front
street will open Thursday for the
summer.
The museum was established last
year as part of Beaufort’s 251st
anniversary of its founding. Gray
den Paul, director, said that the
association hopes to stage again,
late this summer, re-cnactment of
the Spanish invasion, if suffieient
funds arc available.
It can be done, he said, if “200
loyal citizens of Beaufort and vi
cinity” invest $5 this year for a
membership in the association. At
present, there are no funds in the
association's treasury.
The anniversary party expenses
were paid in full and the few hun
dred dollars remaining were used
to get the whaling museum re
opened this year. Donna didn't
float her but deposited about three
inches of mud inside of her. The
museum is in the landlocked shar
pie, Alphonso, on the waterfront.
Mr. Paul is operating the mu
seum this year without pay. Ad
mission prices have been reduced
to 25 cents per person and he
doubts that this will pay the ex
penses of keeping the museum
open. He is, however, interested
in maintaining tourist attractions
in the town, and for that reason
wants to re-stage the Spanish in
vasion.
The invasion was one of the most
spectacular and popular events of
last July’s birthday celebration.
The Spanish pirates, portrayed by
Beaufort firemen, came ashore in
a longboat, attacked the Alphonso
and were repelled by ‘‘townspeo
ple of Beaufort” costumed to rep
resent farmers and merchants of
1747.
Mr. Paul said if the funds are
raised to finance the event, he
plans to build a “fort” out of junk
lumber on the western end of Bird
Shoal and have if go up ip flames
as the Spaniards destroy It on their
campaign to take Beaufort.
It is Mr. Paul’s hope that 200
people will pay $5 a ycar«#o join
the historical association over the
next four years (years of the civil
war centennial celebration).
If this happens, not only will the
re-enactment of the Spanish in
vasion be possible annually for the
next four years but establishment
of a permanent museum in and
around the old county jail can be
gin.
The old jail, built in 1832, was
the first building erected on the
courthouse square after it was set
aside as county property, Mr. Paul
points out.
Family groups or businesses who
wodld like to join the association
may do so for $25 annually. Dues
may be paid to Mrs. Joyce Ful
ford, First-Citizens bank; Mr. Paul
at Paul Motor Co. or mail to Box
218, Beaufort.
Mr. Paul was named finance and
membership chairman of the asso
ciation and director of the summer
program at the recent meeting of
directors of the association.
Mrs. Charles Hassell resigned as
president. Directors arc Russell
Klemm, Dr. John Costlow, Mrs.
Dick Babcock, Mrs. Charles Cheek,
Mrs. Ben Arrington, newly appoint
ed directors, and Mrs. Fulford,
Mrs. Hassell, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Hamilton, Odell Mbrrill, James H.
Potter, and Mr. Paul.
Driver of Wrecked Car
Dies at Camp Lejeune
S/Sgt. Herbert Karl Toland, 37,
who was injured in an auto acci
dent on the Lake road near New
port Sunday night. May 14, died
at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the
hospital at Camp Lejeune. He is
the county’s seventh highway fa
tality this year.
Toland was driver of a 1960 Re
nault which left the road and turn
ed over. Also injured in the acci
dent was Ross F. Bland, USMC,
Camp Lejeune.
J. Edgar Hoover Gives
Views on Death Penalty
In a recent open letter to law i
enforcement officials, J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the FBI, gave
his views on “capital punishment,’’
the taking of a person’s life for
committing a serious crime.
Mr. Hoover’s letter follows:
The capital punishment question,
in which law enforcement officers
have a basic interest, has been
confused recently by self-styled
agitators “against the evil of cap
ital punishment.’’
A brochure released not long
ago, pleading for “rehabilitation’’
of murderers while passing lightly
over the plight of the killers’ in
nocent victims and families,
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Newport Safety
Patrol Will Be
Honored Today
Edgar and Lewis llibbs, owner
operators of Hibbs' soda shop,
Newport, will be host to members
of the Newport school safety pa
trol today. This being the last
day of duty, the 26 members have
been invited to the soda shop at
10:30 a.in. where they will be serv
ed ice cream sodas, assorted
cookies, peanuts, and fountain
drinks.
Brief comments of praise were
made by Principal Ed Comer,
Moses Howard, Edgar llibbs, and
state highway Patrolman R. H.
Brown.
In addition to the party today,
Edgar and Lewis llibbs have given
each patrol member a free ticket
weekly for a fountain drink or a
cup of hot chocolate during the
entire school year. This is in ap
preciation for an efficient daily
job performed in protecting mem
bers of Newport school from in
jury or death when crossing high
way 70 in front of Newport school.
After the soda shop party, the
members of the patrol will assem
ble in a room at school where
they will be given a pin, and cer
tificate of award for meritorious
services this school year. They
will also be presented a gift by
the Newport PTA.
The School Safety Patrol is co
sponsored by the Newport Rotary
club and the Newport Parent
Teacher association. It is super
vised by C. S. Long, teacher in
Newport school, and the principal.
The boys range, by grades, from
the 7th through the 12th. fi’he pa
trol members are as follows:
Joe Garner, captain; Lewis For
rest, lieutenant; Allen Kelly, mas
ter sergeant; Donnie Aycock, ser
geant; Earl Kelly, corporal; Ted
Reynolds, officer elect.
Robert Garner, Victor Mills, Jim
my Aycock, Mickey Simmons,
Danny Roberts, Rodney Williams.
Timmy Forrest, Quinton Wil
liams, L. H. Riggs, Clifton Nance,
Tommy Dickinson, Kenneth Mann,
BUly McCabe.
Johnny Thrower, Mac Murdoch,
Lyndon Norris, Gordon Slaughter,
Glenwood Garner, Milton Swain,
James Greer.
Wife of Beaufort
Man Murdered
Elliott Ewell, whose wife was
raped and murdered in Plainfield,
N. J., Friday, was born and rear
ed in Beaufort.
The Ewell home is now the Tad
Davis house at Marsh and Ann
streets. Mr. Ewell worked for a
time with Duncan pharmacy which
was located on the corner where
Lipman’s store is now.
Mrs. Ewell, 49, who was describ
ed in an Associated Press story
as a “middle-aged socialite,” and
a companion were abducted and
slain. Being held in connection
with the crime are Lorelle Parks
and Joseph Maxey, one of whom
allegedly helped get the women’s
stalled Cadillac started, then jump
ed in the car and drove off with
them.
Ewell is a graduate of State Col
lege, Raleigh. For a number of
years he and his wife lived in Char
lotte prior to 1941. He is now ex
ecutive vice-president of the Mack
Truck Co., Plainfield.
The companion with Mrs. Ewell,
who was also murdered, was Mrs.
Robert Tyson, 50, Plainfield, wife
of a New York stock broker.
charges that law enforcement of
ficers "become so insensitized by
their dealings with vicious crimi
nals that they go to the extreme
of feeling that the death penalty
is absolutely necessary.”
To add to the burden of con
science borne by peace - officers,
prosecutors, and jurists and to
brand law enforcement officers as
callous, unfeeling men "insensi
tized” to the sanctity of human
life are gross acts of injustice to
these servants of the public.
This ridiculous allegation is
mutely refuted by the compassion
which wells up in quiet tears flow
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