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THE NEWS-TIMES
CARTERET COUNTY NEWS-TIMES
50th YEAR, NO. 47.
TWO SECTIONS TWELVE PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Beach Board Deplores
Trash-Littered Areas
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People continue to dump trash and garbage at this area just west of the Atlantic Beach town limits,
despite repeated efforts of the town to curb dumping there. The town has bulldozed the dump, piled loads
of sand over it and erected signs warning dumpers that they are liable to $100 fine. Even the signs were
covered with trash!
Korean Pastor
SpeaksThursday
To Rotary Club
The Rev. Joon Kwan Un, a grad
uate student at Duke University
Divinity school, Durham, was the
speaker at the Thursday night
meeting of the Morehead City Ro
tary club. Mr. Un is an ordained
Methodist minister. He attended
Methodist Seminary in Seoul, Ko
rea and was a chaplain in the Ko
rean army.
The topic of Mr. Un’s talk was
the political and economic prob
lems of Korea. He stated that the
Christian principals of love for
one’s fellow man and charity to
ward all would meet the challenge
of Communism in Korea or any
other area where Communism is
a threat. “Communism’s appeal
to the underprivileged has found
fertile ground in Korea due to the
corruptness of some of the pre
vious governments there,” said
Mr. Un.
Reviewing the history of Korea
since 1911, when it was occupied
by Japan, Mr. Un stated that, with
the coming of freedom in 1945,
president Syngman Rhee’s admin
istration was a good government
but corruption crept in.
“Continued disregard for the
problems of the underprivileged
and the lack of employment oppor
tunities to high school graduates
and graduates of some 95 colleges
and universities led to the student
revolution in 1960,” said Mr. Un.
He added that the government
set up by the revolution lacked
the administrators to give it the
power to correct the ills of the
country. Speaking of the military
junta which recently came to pow
er in Korea, Mr. Un said that it
has a much better chance of giv
ing the country a stable and good
government.
“The leaders are not politicians,”
he said, “but they are primarily
honest and are taking into the gov
ernment politicians and adminis
trators who have the ability to help
correct the problems of corrupt
ness and economic ills.”
See PASTOR, Page 2
'Father Contest' Deadline
Is 10 A.M. Tomorrow
Coast Guard Tows
Muriel to Island
Cape Lookout Coast Guardsmen
towed a 40-foot fishing vessel to
Harkers Island Friday after it Ex
perienced engine failure in Bur
den’s inlet.
The boat, Muriel, is owned by
Clayton Fulcher of Atlantic. The
operator, Joe Davis, was the only
person aboard. The Coast Guard
received the call at 9:20 a.m. at
by 10 a.m. the boat was safest
moored at Harkers Island.
Crew of the Cape Lookout
footer was Reginald Lewis, BMCi
MnJWUis^N^n^avui Kirk
Atlantic Reach commissioners,
meeting at the town hall Friday
morning, acted favorably on rec
ommendations of the fire depart
ment. that if carried out, would
improve and promote the area. The
department, through its secretary,
town clerk M. G. Coyle, set forth
six ideas.
It recommended that the board
request the county to see if the
highway commission would install
turn-around points between Fort
Macon and Salter Path, and install
trash cans for the convenience of
motorists.
Mayor A. B. Cooper remarked
that the highway commission has
already said that the roa'd men
tioned is a secondary road and they
will not put in turnoffs. The mayor
also said that if the town were to
be resopnsible for collecting the
trash from the cans, they would
have to wait until such time as
town-owned equipment was avail
able. Trash is presently collected
by contract.
The firemen requested action on
two matters concerning cleanli
ness. They asked that property
owners be required to remove
trash and debris from their prop
erty and that causeway property
owners be asked to clean up their
land and adjoining land on which
their trash might blow.
The mayor commented that ac
tion would have to come from the
county board in regard to the
causeway, but promised to talk to
the landowners to see if something
couldn’t be done about the trash.
Town attorney George McNeill
See BOARD, Page 2
Sea Level Store
Robbed Sunday
Merchandise valued at approxi
mately $25 was stolen from I. V.
Mason’s store, Sea Level, some
time Sunday night.
According to sheriff Hugh Salter,
a window was forced open. Taken
were cigarettes, cakes and candy.
The break-in was discovered yes
terday morning by Mrs. Dailey
Salter, who operates the store.
The sheriff’s department also
reported thefts from two cars over
the weekend at Salter Path and
Emerald Isle. Accessories were
taken from one car and the other
theft was still under investigation
yesterday.
' Ten o’clock tomorrow morning
is the deadline for submitting
names of candidates for the father
of-the-year title.
Entry blanks are available at
the following stores and business
places in Morehead City: Hill’s,
Leary’s, Western Auto store,
Belk's, Morehead City Drug Co.,
Yacht Basin Outboard marina,
Capt. Bill’s Waterfront restaurant,
E. J. W. Bicycle and Sport shop,
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. and
Sound Chevrolet Co. •
Each one of those businesses
also offers valuable prizes to the
winner.
The winning father will be pre
sented the prizes at the Morehead
City municipal building Saturday
morning.
Annexation Vote
Takes Place Today
Residents in an area adjacent
to Beaufort, proposed for annex
ation, will go to the polls today.
They will vote on whether they
wish to become a part of the
town.
The area lies east of the pre*
ent town limits and is a portion
of a section in which voters re
jected annexation earlier this
year.
During the special registration
for today’s election, 110 persons
registered.
The polls will be open at the
town hall from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30
p in. Judges for the election arc
Wiley H. Taylor Jr. and Frank
Lewis. 1
Board to Stage
July 4 Fish Fry
The board of trustees of the
Sea Level Community hospital will
again sponsor the annual fish fry
July 4 for the benefit of the hos
pital. The fish fry will start at
12 noon and continue until 2 p.m.
at the picnic area immediately ad
jacent to the hospital.
The board has selected the fol
lowing menu for this year: fried
fish, shrimp, crabs, clam fritters,
corn bread, slaw, sliced tomatoes,
sliced peppers, sliced cucumbers.
Tickets for this meal are $1 each.
The picnic area is being enlarg
ed considerably for the occasion.
Tops are being put up to cover the
areas where people stand in line.
Seating is being increased to en
able 1,500 people to eat in com
fort and in the shade. The cook
ing area is also being remodeled
and enlarged.
It is the board’s desire to make
this event an occasion to be re
membered, comments Charles F.
CaudeU Jr., hospital administra
tor.
Woman Dies
Following Swim
Miss Mabel Victoria Ostlund, 46,
of Rockford, 111., died en route to
Morehead City hospital Friday aft
ernoon after apparently suffering
a heart attack while swimming at
Atlantic Beach. The accident hap
pened between the main beach and
Money Island.
Miss Ostlund was spending the
weekend at the beach with Mrs.
Nita Green and Mrs. James Fer
rell of Raleigh. Mrs. Ferrell re
ported that the three of them were
swimming in the surf and Miss
Ostlund waved to the others as she
floated away on her back.
As she came ashore she collaps
ed on the beach as though she was
exhausted. When her companions
reached her and found she was un
conscious, Mrs. Green applied
mouth to mouth respiration until a
rescue unit arrived.
She was taken to Morehead City
hospital in the Bell-Munden am
bulance, but efforts'to revive her
proved futile. Her body was ship
I •
Morehead Board Gets Report,
Analysis of Town's Operations
Harkers Island Youth Recovers
From .45 Calibre Bullet Wound
After undergoing two operations,*
Blaine Johnson, Harkers Island, is
recovering in Duke hospital from
a .45 calibre bullet wound.
Johnson, in his early twenties,
was accidentally shot at 11:30
Thursday morning, according to
deputy sheriff C. II. Davis. The
shot was fir.-d by Nathaniel Macon
(Buddy) Moore.
The deputy said that the two
men were cleaning their ,45’s at a
table in Moore’s house. Moore
was at the end of the table and
Johnson at the side when Moore's
pistol discharged accidentally.
The bullet hit one of Moore’s
fingers and penetrated Johnson's
neck at the side, deputy Davis
said.
In spite of the injuries, the two
got in Moore’s car and Moore
drove to Morehead City hospital
where Johnson stayed about an
hour before being transferred to
Duke hospital.
There “the portion of the bullet
remaining in him” was removed,
according to reports received here,
and later another operation took
place to relieve paralysis at the
side of his head.
No charges in connection with
the accident have been filed.
Criminal Court
Opens Monday
At Courthouse
A one-week term of criminal
court opened yesterday morning
at the courthouse, Beaufort. Judge
Albert W. Cowpcr is presiding.
Scheduled to go before the grand
jury is one murder case. Johnnie
Edwards Waters, Negro, is charg
ed with stabbing Beatrice Mitch
ell Morchcad City, Monday, April
3.
Other grand Jury cases: Ishmaci
R. Smith and James Harvey Jones,
larceny; - Roma G. Salter, J. D.
Gold Jr., R. T. Jordan, drunken
driving; Nelson Lewis, public
drunkenness; Horace (Dick) Bak
er, false pretense, and Herman
Montford, speeding.
The Waters murder case was
docketed for yesterday. The case
charging Elmo Lawrence with
murder of his step-father at Ot
way in December is scheduled to
be tried today.
A one-week term of civil court
will open next Monday, June 19.
• Serving this week on the grand
jury are L. B. Ambrose, foreman;
A. B. Hooper, John H. Bordeaux,
Guy L. Brooks, J. J. Keel, Asa D.
Buck.
James C. Willis, Charles T.
Broadhurst, Paul S. Jones, Ray
mond H. Woolridge, Wade Neal.
Leonard Davis.
Carlos Cordova, McCarthy Mi
zelle, Arline Taylor, R. T. Willis,
James I. Wade apd O. J. Morrow.
Two Accidents
Occur at Beach
Atlantic Beach police investigat
ed two traffic accidents on the
beach Sunday.
The first one occurred at the in
tersection of Fort Macon boule
vard and Morehead drive at 11
a.m. Drivers involved were Hu
bert L. Everhart, Beaufort, and
Franklin D. Brock, Rocky Mount.
According to police, Everhart
was coining out of the parking lot
of the First-Citizens branch bank
ing office and his car collided with
Brock's. Brock, driving a I960
Volkswagen, was travelling east on
Fort Macon boulevard.
Damage to Brock’s car was esti
mated at $300 and to Everhart's
1954 Ford $150. No charges were
filed.
Sunday afternoon a 1958 Cadil
lac, being driven by A. C. Hall of
Raleigh, backed into a 1900 Chev
rolet belonging to George Williams,
Rocky Mount, police said. The
mishap occurred at the Atlantic
Beach parking lot.
Hall’s Cadillac was not damaged
but police estimated damages to
Williams' Chevrolet at $150. No
charges were filed.
35 Register
Thirty-five had registered for
summer courses at Morehead City
school by 3:30 yesterday. Regis
tration continues today. Classes
will begin at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow,
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Leading Republicans Meet
At Morehead City Saturday
Stater Republican chairman William Cobb, left, chats with House
Republican leader William Osteen during a social hour at a OOP
conference Saturday at the Biltmore hotel. Party leaders from all
over the state attended the meeting.
William Osteen, of Greensboro,
minority leader of the State House
of Representatives, stressed the
need for a two-party system in
North Carolina Saturday night in
Morchead City. The occasion was
a banquet attended by North Caro
lina Republicans, meeting in ex
ecutive session at the Biltmore ho
tel.
Mr. Osteen reviewed the contri
butions of the party to the 1961
General Assembly, and discussed
issues that have arisen therefrom.
He also outlined the action neces
sary for young Republicans to take
in helping to make North Carolina
a two-party state.
He told the younger group they
must dedicate themselves to the
idea of the need for two parties;
that they must be self-informed,
that they must pass this informa
tion along to others, and must un
hesitantingly work for the party.
In an executive session of the
senior party, state chairman Wil
liam E. Cobb, Morganton, presid
ed. Clyde Green, of Boone, was
appointed new state finance chair
man.
Plans were formed for running
Congressional candidates in all 11
new Congressional Districts. The
state convention was set for March
3, at Durham, and Jim Bailey, of
Asheville, was appointed tempor
ary convention chairman.
The junior party, in executive
session, adopted a resolution op
posing the food and drug tax on
the basis it hit hardest the people
who could least afford it. Erwin
L. Porterfield, of Burlington, state
chairman of the young Republi
cans, presided.
The Carteret County Republican
Club Elmer D. Willis, president,
was host to the 200 persons attend
ing. The day’s activities ended
with a business meeting of the
Eastern Carolina Republican clubs.
Husband Tells
How if Occurred
A police report, published Fri
day stated that Mrs. Mary Merck
Weeks, 3103 Arendeil, Morehead
City, parked her car downtown,
left it in gear with motor running
and her child in iU-and that, while
she shopped, the child stepped on
the accelerator: result, busted
parking meter.
Her husband, William Weeks, ap
peared in THE NEWS-TIMES of
fice Friday, day of the police re
port’s publication, fire in his eyes,
to say that the story held his wife
up to ridicule.
ft was like this, he explained:
, “While Mrs. Weeks was braking
to a .stop in front of the parking
meter, the baby stepped on the
gas and Mrs. Weeks took her foot
off the brake to stop the baby from
stepping on the gas. That’s what
caused it.”
Term Starts Today
The first term of Duke univer
sity summer school at the marine
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Beach Guards
Save Five Lives
Atlantic Beach lifeguards and
police have compiled a record of
five lives saved in three days.
Three young men caught in the
undertow betwee n Sportsman’s
pier and the beach were rescued
yesterday about noon and admit
ted to the Morehead City hospital.
They were E. L. Coble of Greens
boro, Donald Collier of Rocky
Mount and Billy Skiles, a Marine
stationed at Cherry Point, accord
ing to records at the hospital. No
report on their condition was avail
able at press time.
On the rescue scene were the
Morehead City and Atlantic Beach
rescue squads, beach life guards
and the Coast Guard.
Rescued Saturday was Kay Kel
ly, 17, Raleigh, and an unidenti
fied boy who was with her. They
were given resuscitation at the
beach then rushed to Morehead
City hospital. Atlantic Beach life
guard Norman Agee and Johnny
Baker, who operates the umbrella
concession at the beach, were
credited with the rescue.
Chief lifeguard Allen Autry said
the bathers were swimming out
side the lifeguard-protected roped
off area.
Police chief Bill Moore said that
a total of 53 swimmers were assist
ed from the water since Friday,
There has been an unusually strong
undertow.
Board Accepts Resignation
Of City Clerk John Lashley
The Morehead City town board
accepted Thursday night the resig
nation of John Lashlcy, city clerk.
The resignation becomes effective
Saturday, June 17.
Mr. Lashley has accepted a po
sition with W. P. Freeman Whole
sale Co., Morehead City, lie has
held the position of city clerk and
tax collector since Dec. 1, 1947,
succeeding the late Harry Webb.
At the suggestion of commission
er Bud Dixon, George McNeill,
town attorney, will meet with a
representative of Seashore Trans
portation Co., relative to establish
ment of a bus station in Morehead
City.
Mayor George Dill pointed out
that there have been conferences
in the past, that various attempts
were made to- establish stations,
but there was not enough business
to justify the company’s increas
ing its investment in Morehead
City.
Commissioner Dixon maintained
that an effort should be made to
ward providing a shelter and cen
tral point wh^r? bus passengers
j Board Will Consider
Recommendations Tonight
In a three-and-a-half hour ses -
sion Thursday night, the Morchcad
City town board heard a compre
hensive analysis of Morehcad
City's government and recommen
dations for its improvement. The
study was made by the League of
Municipalities at the request of
mayor George Dill and the town
board.
Presenting the report was Jim
Burgess, of the league, who inter
viewed heads of town departments
and observed present operations.
The board will meet tonight to
consider adoption or rejection of
any of the 22 recommendations
made in the report.
Mr. Burgess said that some of
the recommendations cannot be
carried out immediately; others
can.
The report recommends abolish
ing the present system of having
each of the five commissioners
head a specific department. It
also recommends far-reaching
changes in finance and counting, j
It suggests that the elected rep
resentatives of the people — the j
town board, also have more direct j
control over the hospital and rec
reation boards to whom the town
turns over sizeable amounts of
money annually.
Mr. Burgess said that one of the
major sources of trouble in town
operation is that the board sets
policy and commissioners them
selves carry out that policy. The
commissioners themselves become
involved in administration, Mr.
Burgess said.
The report recommends that a
town supervisor or one single in
dividual be given the authority to
“exercise effective management.”
The report says, “The major prob
lem of the present administrative
organization of the town govern
ment is the lack of central respon
sibility and authority.”
All the changes recommended by
the league can be carried out un
der the present town charter, Mr.
Burgess said, even though the
charter is in "critical need of re
vision.”
The report notes that the prob
lem of organization the town con
tends with is "largely attributable
to the town charter.”
Under the present set-up, the re
See REPORT, Page 2
Saturday Rain
Breaks Dry Spell
Saturday’s rain, which was the
first for June, amounted to .44
inches, according to a report from
the Atlantic Beach weather sta
tion. The shower started late Sat
urday night and continued until
early Sunday morning. The rain
ended a drought of more than two
weeks. Showers also fell Sunday.
Temperature ranges and wind
directions for the past week were
recorded as follows by weather
observer Stanley Davis of More
head City:
High Low Wind
Monday . 83 68 NNE
Tuesday . 82 73 SW
Wednesday 82 74 SW
Thursday ... 83 74 SW
Friday . 85 74 SW
Saturday 85 75 SW
Sunday . 85 72 NE
The mayor said he was told by*
a Seashore representative that the
bus could go directly to Beaufort,
the terminal point of the line, by
way of highway 101 and wouldn't
lose any appreciable amount of
business by by-passing Morehead
City.
Commissioner Russell Outlaw re
ported that the new fence at Erne
line Pigott cemetery has been put
up and a new marker erected
there.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, June 13
8:24 a.m.
8:38 p.m.
2:25 a.m.
2:28 p.m.
Wednesday, June 14
9:08 a.m.
9:18 p.m.
3:07 a.m.
3:08 p.m.
Thursday, June 15
9:54 a.m.
9:59 p.m.
3:48 a.m.
3:48 p.m.
Friday, June 18
10:41 a.m.
4:26 a.m.
ICC Ruling
Favors Rates
For Morehead
• Examiner Says Equal
Rates Here Okay
# Objectors May Seek
Different Ruling
An Interstate Commerce com
mission examiner lias ruled that
railroad import-export freight rates
al the port of Morehead City should
he made equal with the lower rates
prevailing at the port of Wilming
ton.
Mayor George Pill, Morehead
City, commented “This is a vic
tory. That which is right is tri
umphing. The ICC examiner has
ruled that it would not be detri
mental to have rates at Wilming
ton, Morehead City and Norfolk
equalized. The work we have done
is paying off.”
Mayor Dill was one of many wit
nesses in hearings on the matter.
Southern Itailway, which serves
the port of Morehead City, was
assisted by Morehead City, the
Slate Utilities commission and
other state officials in the fight for
equal rates.
Objecting to the rate lowering at
Morehead City is the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad, the city of Wilming
ton and Virginia and South Caro
lina ports.
Even though examiner Boyd’s
decision may be appealed, the
lower rates will remain in effect.
B. E. Young, assistant to Harry
DoButts, president of Southern
Hailawy, said that by putting rates
equal to Wilmington’s into effect
at Morehead City, Southern “kept
a promise made to the state of
North Carolina when the Atlantic
and East Carolina was purchased
in 1957.” (The A&EC line, op
erated by Southern, runs from
Goldsboro to the port city).
Examiner Boyd, in his report,
said it appears that both Norfolk
and Wilmington will continue to
thrive, adding that the overall pub
lic interest outweighs Wilmington’s
local interest.”
Both Morehead City and Wil
mington arc state-owned and state
operated ports.
The Atlantic Coast Line serves
Wilmington and fought lower rates
at Morehead on the grounds that
Southern's action could start a
rate war among southern ports.
In his ruling Mr. Boyd proposed
that the ICC fix a minimum earn
ings formula on Morehead City rail
traffic to forestall establishment of
any rate which would be be below
the cost of service.
He also recommended that the
ICC cancel various railroad pro
posals to lower export-import rail
rail rates at other South Atlantic
ports.
The case went to the ICC when
ACL asked the federal agency to
compel Southern to maintain the
higher, unequal rates.
Tax Payments
Come in Well
Payments on 1961 taxes have
been coming in very well, accord
ing to John Lashley, Morehead City
tax collector. The tax notices, were
in the mail the first week in June.
Mr. Lashley said approximate
ly $25,000 of the levy has been col
lected to date.
He also reported that the town
ended May, the 11th month of the
1960-61 fiscal year with a balance
of $10,000. It was unnecessary to
borrow from the debt service fund
to meet the general town operat
ing expenses.” This is the first
| time this has happened since 1
have been tax collector,” Mr.
Lashley said.
He attributed the improved fi
nancial condition to more concert