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THE NEWS-TIMES
50th YEAR, NO. 51.
TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES
MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Coast Guard
Aids Swimmer
• Bill Powers Plucked
From Water Thursday
• Swansboro Lifeboat
Picks Up Crewman
Fort Macon Coast Guardsmen
made a variety of assists over the
weekend, ranging from rescuing a
swimmer to taking a sick crew
man to the hospital.
At 12:17 p.m. Thursday the At
lantic Beach police calletf the sta
tion and reported that a swimmer
had gotten beyond the breakers
and needed help.
The 40-footer went to the vicin
ity of the Oceanaria and Sportsman
piers, where they picked up Bill
Powers, route 1 Morehead City.
Powers said he couldn't make it
back to the beach. They took him
back to Fort Macon and, when he
said he had suffered no ill effects,
they took him to Atlantic Beach.
Aboard the 40-footer were James
Pittman, BM1, Williams, EN2, and
Sam Salter, SN.
David Lander of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
came to the station Saturday night
about 11:30 and reported that his
25-foot sailboat had run aground
in Newport marsh at the entrance
to the Morehead City yacht basin.
The 40-footer went to assist, but
could not refloat the vessel due to
low water.
They returned at 4:15 a.m. Sun
day when the tide was high and
pulled the boat off in an hour. They
towed her to the yaeht basin pier.
Pittman, Williams and Salter made
the assist.
A 20-foot outboard experienced
engine failure near Core Creek
light 30 Sunday at 3:45 p.m. and
had to be towed to the Morehead
City yacht basin.
C. T. McDonald of Goldsboro
owned the boat- Two-persons were
aboard. Manning the '40-'footcr
were Pittman, Williams and Salter.
Swansboro lifeboat station sent
its boat to meet the tug, Edward
•F. Farrington, Sunday night and
remove a sick crewman, David B.
Willis of Morehead City.
The Swansboro boat came ashore
at Cedar Point, where it was met
by the Coast Guard truck from
Fort Macon. Willis was transfer
red to the truck and taken to More
head City hospital.
Counselors Tour
30 Campuses
Miss Gertrude Styron, guidance
director for Carteret high schools,
and Miss Lena Duncan, faculty
member and guidance counselor
at Beaufort school, recently at
tended a conference for high school
guidance counselors at Pfeiffer
college, Misenheimer.
Twenty-eight guidance directors
participated and toured more than
30 colleges in the state during a
two-week workshop.
Miss Gertrude Styron
. . . guidance counselor
Kiss Lena Duncan
> . . Beaufort teacher
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Miss Ann Davis Wins Crown
News-Times Photo by McComb
Miss Ann Davis, center, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Davis, Beaufort, was crowned Miss Carteret
County at the Jaycce-sponsored beauty pageant Saturday night. First runner-up was Doris Phillips, left,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orlandah Phillips, Morehead City, and second runner-up was Miss Marguerite
Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Waiter Edwards, Morehead City.
Morehead National Guard
Returns from Fort Bragg
National Guardsmen of Battery
C, 690th Field Artillery Battalion,
Morehead City, returned Sunday
from Fort Bragg after having com
pleted two weeks training. They
left here June 11.
At Fort Bragg tests were given
various batteries who competed
against each other. Talking about
the performances yesterday,
M/Sgt. Dennis M. Goodwin, ad
ministrative officer, said that Bat
tery C “came out above average
in comparison with the other units
there.”
Commanding the unit from this
county is Capt. Norman R. Harris.
Assigned to the unit, while at
Fort Bragg, as executive officer
was first Lt. Marvin E. Baugh.
Assistant executive officer was
first Lt. Charles G. Cooper. As
sistant executive officer was sec
ond Lt. Taft M. Joseph Jr.
Non-commissioned officers were
the following: Sergeant Goodwin,
M/Sgt. Roger L. Hoggard, Sfc.
Robert F. Butler and Sfc. Kcndel
H. Christensen.
Staff sergeants: John R. Davis,
Richard Reim
Wins Eagle Rank
Richard Rcint, 16, route 2 New
port, son of T/Sgt. and Mrs. Rich
ard P. Reim, was awarded Eagle
rank Sunday night. The ceremony
was the final part of the Carteret
District Boy Scout Court of Honor
at St. James Methodist church.
Richard was born in Rocky
Mount. When he was 8 he joined
Pack 272, Cub Scouts at Havelock.
At the age of 11 he joined Troop
52 of Havelock and advanced to
second class.
After recovering from an attack
of rheumatic fever he and his fam
ily moved to Newport in 1957. Rich
ard now is and has been for a long*
time senior patrol leader of Troop
61 which he joined in 1957.
He achieved his rank in spite of
a long and serious bout with ielitis,
which resulted in missing several
months of school during 1960.
Richard has earned the following
merit badges: citizenship in the
home, the community and the na
tion; basketry, firemanship, camp
ing, cooking, safety, forestry, pub
lic health.
Mechanical drawing, marksman
ship, music, first aid, reading,
weather, nature, bugling, swim
ming, lifesaving, and personal fit
ness.
The award was presented by Bob
Howard, county chairman, and
Rev. M. O, Sears, of the Newport
Missionary Baptist church, Rich
ard's pastor. Mrs. Reim pinned
the award on her son.
Names of other Scouts who ad
vanced in rank at the court of hon
or will appear in Friday’s paper.
Walter E. C.lancy, Lester L. Hall
Jr., Robert C. McLean and Russell
E. Willis Jr.
Sergeants: John B. Allen, Larry
G. Arnold, James E. Briscoe, Paul
G. Guthrie, Vernon L. Guthrie and
Charles E. Nobles, Thomas C.
Oglesby, Roy D. Russell, Stanley
E. Smith, George K. Willis and
Malcom R. Willis Jr.
Corporals: Eden C. Barefoot Jr.,
William D. Munden Jr., George
P. Whittle Jr., Romaine Willis and
Kemp B. Wickizcr Jr.
Specialists: lloytc Brannon, Ver
non E. Cannon, Patrick D. Conner,
Dallas M. Foster, Jessie J. Gray,
Wallace G. Holiday and Francis N.
Hyatt.
Raymond E. Jones, Leedy Lewis,
Melvin Mansfield Jr., Ronald D.
Matthews, Julian T. Saunders,
Ronald L. Smith, Atlon K. Willis
and Leonard P. Willis.
Privates first class: Peter G.
Davis, Burvel A. Garner Jr.,
Thomas E. Gilbert, James C. Guth
rie, Johnny R. Jarmen, Arthur T.
Johnson, Bobby M. Johnson, Billy
F. Jones and Robert J. Matthews.
Robert J. Sharp Jr., Leo F.
Simpson Jr., Adrian S. Warren,
David E. White and Winston O.
Williams, and Pvt. Fred Guthrie
Jr.
Ten other non-cnlistcd men con
nected to Battery C completed
their ‘basic advanced individual
and unit phases during the six
months' active duty training pe
riod. They arc the following:
Melvin C. Buck, Jessie L. Ful
cher, Joseph E. Griffin, Vance B.
Ilarrcl, David E. Moore, Elmo R.
Wheeler and Edmond L. Willis Jr.
The following are recruits: Jim
my R. Matthews, Donny R. Rus
sell and Roma D. Wade Jr.
Business concerns employing the
guardsmen and allowing them the
two weeks’ leave for summer
training are the following:
Texaco stations in Morehead
City, Atlantic Beach and Newport;
Richard Reim
• • . Eagle geest
Willis’s sawmill, Lloyd A. Fry,
Steve Guthrie’s store at Salter
Path, Broad Street grocery in
Beaufort, Carteret-Craven Electric
Membership Corp., Willis Land
scaping.
Bell-Munden Funeral home, Sun
shine laundry, Trumbull Asphalt
Co., Jones’s Fish Co., Broad Creek,
Durham Life Ins., Mansfield Su
perette and Lee’s Fish house on
Barkers Island.
Thunderstorms
Prevail Sunday
Widely scattered and intermit
tent thunder showers prevailed in
the county Sunday.« At Atlantic
Beach, which probably had less
rain than other sections of the
county, the weather station record
ed .55 inches of moisture.
Cooling temperatures also ac
companied the showers. The tem
perature at Atlantic Beach Sunday
at 1 p.m. was 72 degrees, one de
gree cooler than the 1 a.m. read
ing Sunday.
Temperatures, Thursday through
Sunday, were recorded as follows:
High Low
Thursday 83 73
Friday .83 74
Saturday .88 74
Sunday .72 73
Sanford Praises
'61 Legislature
Gov. Terry Sanford is generous
in his praise of the 1981 general
assembly. In a specially prepared
statement, Governor Sanford says,
“The 1961 General Assembly of
North Carolina enacted more far
sighted and far-reaching legisla
tion than any General Assembly
in the 20th century history of our
state.
He particularly praised the as
sembly's action in enacting the
“greatest program for quality edu
cation for the boys and girls of
North Carolina since the days of
Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock . . .”
To finance this program a 3 per
cent sales tax on food has been
levied. When the governor orig
inally proposed this tax, the bill
provided for sending it to the peo
ple for approval in a referendum
this coming November.
As finally passed, however, re
ferral of the food tax to the peo
ple, was eliminated.
The people will vote on, how
ever, bond issues for improve
ments at state ports and for new
facilities at state-s
leges and
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1. G. Dunn Says
Ship Collections
At Standstill
L. G. Dunn, county collector o'
funds to save the USS North Caro
lina, said Friday that collection
were “stymied.” At a standstill
The battleship fund in Cartero
had reached a total of $400.2ti ye
terday. A goal of $1,400 has bee
set by the governor's office for Cat
terct.
Mr. Dunn urges everyone to p
in and help make the drive a sue I
cess. “We are in the final stage i
of the campaign. Contribute with
out delay,” the chairman said.
The state is making an effort b
raise $250,000 to buy the battleship
North Carolina, and save it fr.im
the scrap heap. If succcssfhe
ship will be berthed at " lo> ngtie'
as a permanent shrine. Only about
a third of the money has fuen re
ceived so far.
Of the county total. $.’75.20 has
been donated by schools. Each
school that gives to cents per stu
dent will receive free tickets for
its students to visit the shrine when
it is completed Folks are inv ited
to send contributions earmarked
for school children, to enable them
to reach their goal.
Beaufort schools have given
$118.31, leaving a balance of $91.89
to make them eligible for tickets.
Smyrna gave $42.15, leaving $19 85.
Morehcad City school children gave
$114.18, leaving $129.50.
Atlantic, Markers Island, New
port and Stella have not contrib
uted. $412.04 is needed to make all
county children eligible for tickets.
Andy Anderson of Robersonvillc,
a summer resident at Atlantic
Beach, is chairman for Martin
county, lie reports that 31 ad
mirals have been named there.
Admirals are persons who con
tribute $100 or more to the fund.
Srte-ct has two adluirals, Capt.
arHc Piner and mayor W. H.
Potter of Beaufort.
Contributions may be mailed to
the chairman, Mr. Dunn, in Beau
fort. The chairman stressed the
fact that time is running out and
asks folks to make their donations
right away.
Cape Lookout
Helps Two Craft
Coast Guardsmen from Cape
I.oookut lifeboat station assisted
two vessels in distress over the
weekend.
A 65-foot shad boat with fifteen
pleasure riders aboard ran aground
at 11 a.m. Saturday near beacon
14 in Barden’s inlet. The 30-footer
refloated the boat, Garret Bay, in
about half an hour.
The Cape Lookout tower spotted
an outboard boat flying a white
distress signal Sunday morning at
8:45. The boat had experienced
engine failure near buoy 5 in the in
let. The 30-footer towed the boat
to liarkers Island, mooring her at
9:45.
Aboard the 30-footer on both as
sists were Jack Davis, BM1, and
David Kirkland, FA.
Champion Crab Speedsters
Of 12 Counties to Race
Morehead City will he the site of North Carolina's first
annual Hardcrab Derby. The two-day racing event will
take place Friday and Saturday, Aug. 25 a^d 26, and is
"cpoctel to attract scores of crustacean entrants from the
state's 12 crab-producing counties.
elimination contests will be held all day Friday, Aug. 25
Raise the Flag!
$130
Beaufort Historical association
is seeking 200 members for the
current year at $5 each in mem
bership dues. Twenty-six have
joined thus far. making a total
of $130. As contributions come in,
the flag will go up the mast.
Contributions are being accept
ed now by Grayden Paul, finance
chairman for the Beaufort His
torical association. Money will
be used to finance re-enactment
of the Spanish invasion Aug. 5
on the Beaufort waterfront.
Officers Investigate Eight
Accidents During Weekend
Highway patrolmen investigated
six accidents from Thursday aft
ernoon through Sunday night, and
Atlantic Beach police investigated
two.
Two cars collided at 3 p.m.
Thursday on the Salter Path road
at the entrance to the Morehead
ocean pier. According to patrol
man R.' H. Brown, Opey Dew
Jcancs, route 1 Sims, in a 1956
Plymouth was headed west and
slowed to turn into the road to the
pier.
lie said the sun temporarily
blinded him and he turned into a
1960 Chevrolet headed east on the
Salter Path road. Driving the
Chevrolet was Lelton Karl Harris,
Alexandria, Va. The Plymouth hit
the left rear of the Chevrolet, in
flicting $150 damage.
Damage to the Plymouth was
estimated at $200. No one was in
jured.
A 1955 Chevrolet driven by Sank
ie Jean Glenn, Mt. Olive, tangled
with a 1959 Chevrolet driven by
Leroy T. Swindell, Morehead City,
at 9:45 p.m. Thursday at Wilson
avenue and the Fort Macon road,
Atlantic Beach.
►and throughout the morning of Sat
Jurday, Aug. 26. The race course
| will be a 16-foot plywood track,
j The final, Governor's Cup race
will be held Saturday afternoon and
| Governor Sanford is expected to
J present the handsome Governor’s
Cup to the winning crap, or, per
haps more fittingly, to the winning
crab’s handlers.
The winning crab and its hand
lers will be given an all expense
paid trip to Crisfield, Md., Sept. 2,
as the representative of the state
of North Carolina.
Preliminary plans for the unique
event were made at a meeting
Thursday noon at Sanitary Kish
Market restaurant, Morehead City.
Present were Wade Lucas, public
information officer of the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment; Dr. A. K. Chestnut, director,
and Dr. Austin Williams, shellfish
specialist, both of the Institute of
Fisheries Research, UNC; Skinner
A .Chalk Jr., president of the
Greater ' Morehead City Chamber
of Commerce.
Joseph A. DuBois, manager of
the chamber; Capt. Ottis Purifoy,
('apt. Tony Seamon and Lockwood
Phillips, publisher of THE NEWS
TIMES.
Assisting the Greater Morehead
City Chamber of Commerce in
staging the crab derby are the In
stitute of Fisheries Research and
the Department of Conservation
and Development.
Mr. Chalk said figures supplied
him by the C&D Department and
Institute of Fisheries Research
show that the crab industry, a
year ’round business in North
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James La Porte, beach* police
man, said that Glenn tried to pass
Swindell as- Swindell was turning
left off the Fort Macon road. Dam
age to the 1959 Chevrolet was esti
mated at $50 and to the other $125.
A 1959 Ford went out of control
at 10:45 p.m. Saturday cast of
Ward’s creek bridge on highway
70. Driving the car, owned by
Tcnnie Davis, was his son, Bill.
According to patrolman W. J.
Smith Jr., who investigated, the
car was headed cast and turned
over several times. The car was
demolished. Patrolman Smith said
Davis was taken to the Morehead
City hospital where he was given
emergency treatment and dis
charged.
Officer William Earl Wilson, At
lantic Beach, investigated an acci
dent at Fort Macon and the beach
roads at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Ac
cording to officer Wilson, a 1961
Corvair, driven by Thelma G.
Cooper, Greensboro, was stopped
at the light.
As the driver started out, she
put the car into reverse instead of
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Club Receives Radio
Wade Local, public information officer with the Department of Conservation and Development, pre
sents a transistor radio to Mrs. Clem Johnson, center, and Miss Alida WUlis of the Carteret Business and
Professional Women’s club. The radio is in appreciation of the club's selling CAD cooh boohs at the recent
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County Official
Says Criticism
Is Unjustified
• Price on Hospital
Site Fair, He Says
• Owner Was Reluctant
To Offer Land
Moses Howard, chairman of the
county board of commissioners,
said yesterday that because of
i court action he feels that Earle
W. Wchb, who has offered to sell
the land for the proposed hospital,
has been unduly criticised.
"It appears that some people
have the attitude that the price we
i are paying for the land is far out
of line. The price is not out of
line for the amount of property
we are acquiring, the $10,000 worth
of landscaping on it. and its loca
tion on Hogue Sound,’’ the chair
man continued.
“As for the accusations that
there is a cloud on the title, the
county hoard relied on its attorney
to search the title and he advises
us that the title is clear,” Mr.
Howard declared.
“Mr. Webb is very reluctant to
part with this land." the county
chairman said. “He told us that
lie did not want to sell it and would
not consider selling it as residen
tial property or for businesses, but
because he is so interested in see
ing the county get a hospital, he
would be willing to part with it.”
Mr. Howard said that realtors
have appraised the tract the coun
ty wishes to acquire at almost
$100,000.
The chairman of the county
board said, “Knowing Mr. Webb
i as 1 do, and knowing his feeling
I toward the growth of Carteret
county, he certainly would not
overcharge us for the bind we pro
pose to build a hospital on.”
Mr. Howard commented that the
county had already invested a
large amount of money in the Webb
site before dissatisfied parties de
cided to file a suit. He said that
continuation of court action is go
ing to be expensive to the taxpay
er.
Referring again to the manner
in which the Webb site was de
cided upon, Mr. Howard said, “We
had no hope of getting this land
until Jan. 20, 1961.
Then, several of the county com
missioners met with Mr. Webb on
the property.
“He was reluctant to sell us any
part of the area that now com
prises his homcplacc, but after
speaking with him a while, he fi
nally consented to offer us the por
tion of land on the water where
we propose to build the hospital,”
Mr. Howard concluded.
Check Passer
Pays Court Costs
Bill Stanley, Burlington, who has
been littering the county with
worthless checks, paid costs in At
lantic Beach mayor’s court last
week and was ordered to make the
$15 check good.
Stanley is also wanted in More
head City and county recorder’s
courts on worthless check charges.
He posted bond for his appearance
in those courts.
Checks Stanley has been passing
bear his name and address im
printed on the check.
Three other defendants paid
costs. They arc John Cronin,
Cherry Point, public drunkenness;
Oscar L. Schneider Jr., Swansboro,
having beer in his possession, and
Donald P. Mobley, Swansboro,
charged with buying beer for a
minor.
Both Schneider and Mobley have
been restricted from the beach un
til Schneider is 18, which is July
30, 1961.
Thomas P. Tobin and Samuel B.
Wilson, Camp Lejeune, both charg
ed with public drunkenness and
resisting arrest, forfeited bond.
Mayor A. B. Cooper presided.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH
LOW
Tuesday, June 27
6:59 a.m.
7:21 p.m.
1:13 a.m.
1:13 p.m.
Wednesday, June 28
7:50 a.m.
8:09 p.m.
2:03 a.m.
2:04 p.m.
Thursday, June 29
8:43 a.m.
9:01 p.m.
2:51 a.m.
2:56 p.m.
Friday, June 89
9:40 a.m.
8:39 a.m.