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50th YEAR, NO. 52.
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MOREHEAD CITY AND BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1961
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
Food Store Operators Don't
Expect Rush to Beat Tax
Seven New
Teachers Will
Join Faculty
Seven new teachers will be on
the Beaufort 'acuity for the school
year 1961-62.
They are as follows, according
to Albert Gainey, principal: Bon
ny Miller will teach the 9th grade;
Miss Jacquelyn Waters will teach
11th and 12th grade English and
Mrs. Jarret James will teach a
commercial course.
Miss Faye Mason will teach 9th
grade civics and 9th and 10th grade
English. John Hamilton will re
place Mrs. Shirley Babcock in the
8th grade, who will move down to
the 7th grade.
Mrs. Elmer Husosky will be
teaching the 7th grade. Jarret
James will teach the 6th grade
and Mrs. Margie Harris will teach
2nd grade.
Openings presently exist in the
7th and 5th grades, Mr. Gainey
said.
Teachers not returning are the
following: Carl W. Metts, Mrs.
Mary N. Wester, William A. Lock
ard II, Mrs. Lucille P. Guthrie,
Mrs. Marcia A. Bryce, Mrs. Sara
B. Dudley, Mrs. Margaret J. Ar
rington. Mrs. Josephine R. Pryth
erch and Mrs. Peggy H. Rhodes.
The following teachers arc re
turning: Miss Lena Duncan, Mrs.
Mildred Lawrence, James L. Gra
ham, Curtis H. Lancaster, Mrs.
Mabel Jones, George Banks, Thom
as McQuaid, Mrs. Geraldine Bev
eridge.
Mrs. Dora Clonlz, Mrs. Grace
Fodrie, Mrs. Shirley Babcock,
Mrs. Cora Jones, Mrs. Nancy
Dunn, Mrs. Daphne Young, Mrs.
Elizabeth Woodard, James Fodrie
Jr.
Mrs. Eunice Scott, Mrs. Flor
ence Brooks, Mrs. Pearl Day, Mrs.
Lois Sherrill, Mrs.' Isabella Mor
ris, Mrs. Clare Bonner, Mrs. Vir
ginia Bradburry, Mrs. Gladys
Thomas, Mrs. Ellen Dickinson.
Mrs. Carrie Hancock, Mrs. Susan
Rumley, Mrs. Eileen Jones, Miss
Laura Gibbs, Mrs. Evelyn Lewis,
Miss Ethel Whitehurst, Miss Myr
tle Piver, Mrs. Annie Neal and
Mrs. Beatrice Martin.
Honored by FFA
C. S. Long, vocational agricul
ture teacher of Newport school,
was one of the seven teachers in
North Carolina selected to re
ceive the Honorary State Farm
er Degree issued during the Stats
FFA convention in the William
Neal Reynolds coliseum, State
College, Raleigh, this week.
The State Advisory council has
authorized that not more than 12
degrees of this nature be award
ed per year to teachers.
The high honor is based on 32
items on which the teachers
were scored with reference to
their work in promoting the ac
tivities of the Future Farmers
of America.
Penalty on State
Privilege License
To Start Saturday
Beginning Saturday, penalty will
be due on state privilege licenses
for the tax year June 1, 1961 to
May 31, 1962, according to H. W.
Dickson, state revenue collector
for this vicinity.
Mr. Dickson advises that this
penalty will be 5 per cent per
month for each delinquent month,
and urges all taxpayers to file
their applications for privilege li
censes immediately in order to
avoid penalty.
These applications for licenses
should be mailed to the N. C. De
partment of Revenue, Raleigh,
N. C.
Further information may be had
by contacting Mr. Dickson at his
office ia the courthouse annex,
Beaufort, phone PA8-3395. ._
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Most Businesses
To Observe Fourth
Postofficcs, banks and town
halls will be closed Tuesday,
July 4. Also closed will be the
courthouse in Beaufort and all
the county ABC stores.
A check of stores in Morehead
City and Beaufort reveals that
the majority of the drug stores
will be open on July 4. Other
retail stores, with a few excep
tions, expect to be closed.
The county public library in
Beaufort and the Webb Memorial
library in Morehead City will be
closed also.
THE NEWS-TIMES will be
closed Tuesday, but Tuesday’s
paper will appear as usual.
Lejeune Invites
4th Celebrants
Civilians are invited to Fourth
of July festivities at Camp Le
jeune. Events planned include a
water show, fireworks and a band
concert.
Highlighting the day’s activities
will be the water sports festival
at the Wallace Creek boathouse.
It will include sailing races, a wa
ter ski show, skin diving, boating
demonstrations and free boat rides.
Two sailing races are scheduled,
the first at 9:30 and the second at
2 p.m.
The Corsair, Camp Lejeune’s 45
foot pleasure boat, will give free
rides all day to civilian visitors as
well as Marines, their dependents
and guests. The free cruise will
afford a view of Camp Lejeune
and the Air Facility from the wa
ter.
Two water ski shows are sched
uled, the first at 11 a.ru. and the
second at 2 p.m.
The Sea Urchins, Camp Le
jeune’s skin diving club, will give
demonstrations of equipment and
water entry techniques.
The Marine band will give a con
cert at the Wallace Creek boat
house from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Power Truck Approached,
Bear Charged — Bear Dead
By GEORGE HALL
A 251-pound male bear was kill
ed at 2 p.m. Tuesday by a Caro
lina Power and Light truck on
highway 101 near the Carteret
Craven line.
Driver of the truck, Irvin Pratt,
Beaufort, said . the bear charged
out of the woods, jumped a 10-foot
ditch and seemed to be attacking
the truck.
A driver of a car following the
truck said the truck went a foot
into the air when the rear dual
wheels hit the bear. The bear’s
head and shoulders were smashed.
Line foreman Earl Tharp, More
head City, said he was sure the
bear could have avoided the truck
had he wanted to. Other members
of the line crew riding in the truck
were Eugene Garner, Ben Merrill
and James Modlin, all of Beaufort.
The men put the bear aboard the
truck and took it to Morehead City
where the accident was reported
to the game warden. From the
tips of his front paws to the rear
paws, the bear measured better
than 7 feet.
The Woods—Papa Bear went to
bed early after that fool Goldilocks
got in the house and ate most of
the family’s mush. Then the cub,
still in hysterics from the fright of
finding a girl in his bed, had cried
most of the night. Still, Papa rose
What a Difference
A Digit Can Make!
A Morebead City pharmacist
and undertaker has been plagued
the past three weeks with calls
for an animal doctor. *
Dr. C. E. Paden, veterinarian,
left town on a three-week vaca
tion and put a sign on his door
that persons needing a veteri
narian’s services should phone
PA6-5580.
THAT is the number of George
W. Dill and Sons, undertakers.
Mr. Dill is also a pharmacist.
What Dr. Paden intended to
write was the number, PA6-S880,
the home phone of Dr. R. D. Lan
caster, Havelock veterinarian,
who has recently moved to At
lantic Beach.
Well, it was some three weeks
for Mr. Dill, who incidentally,
is also mayor of Morebead City.
All he needs—-in addition to his
regular business and municipal
business—are people calling him
for prescriptions for their sick
cat and bloated cow.
3 Per Cent Food Tax Goes
Into Effect Tomorrow
Raise the Flag!
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$1,000
$200
Grayden Paul, finance chair
man for the Beaufort Historical
association, announced yesterday
that the membership now num
bers 40, making a total of $200
received in dues.
The aim of the association is
200 members and $1,000 to help
finance re-enactment of the Span
ish invasion on the Beaufort wa
terfront Saturday, Aug. 5.
How fast the flag goes up the
mast depends on how quickly
people respond to the current
membership drive.
SPA Meets
The State Ports Authority met
Tuesday at Raleigh. D. Leon Wil
liams, executive director, stated
that there is a need for additional
tobacco warehouse space on the
waterfront at Morchcad City.
early the next morning to get to
work.
Papa grumbled at his early ris
ing. Seems like you had to get
up earlier and earlier to get out
and bring home the family bacon.
Wasn’t like the good old days that
grandpa Bear used to tell about
when they hadn’t built the high
way.
Nowadays, a bear had to rise
way before dawn to beat the traf
fic. Then all day long he’d rush
through the woods without a mo
ment’s peace, just to stay in busi
ness.
Papa thought how nice it would
See BEAR, Page 8
Ocracoke Puts Up with Off-On Power
Ocracoke, jammed with tourists,
was getting power of a sort yes
terday. Emergency generators
from Cherry Point Marine Corps
air station were in operation and
the word from the island was that
everyone was getting power occa
sionally.
Mrs. Theodore Rondthaler,
NEWS-TIMES correspondent on
the island, said yesterday that the
LATE BULLETIN: Because
the portable Cherry Point units
are inadequate, two larger-ca
pacity units yesterday were en
route to Ocracoke from Crewe,
Va. When they are operating,
which is expected to be today,
the entire village of Ocracoke
will be getting power, thus elim
inating the spasmodic condition
which has been existing.
trouble started when lightning
burned out the largest of the three
REA generators Sunday afternoon.
This put a heavy overload on the
two remaining diesels. The larger
one of those blew a piston at 6
o’clock Tuesday morning.
All that was left was the 60 kilo
watt unit which was totally incap
able of feeding electricity to the
island and its summer guests.
Repairs were made to keep busi
ness firms supplied with power off
and on. While one portion of the
island was getting power, the re
mainder would be without. At
Bridge Breaks Down
Highway traffic was tied up over
the noon hour Wednesday when
the Atlantic Beach bridge experi
enced a break-down.
► Food store owners, generally,
aren’t expecting a surge of busi
ness today in a race by shoppers
to beat the sales tax. The 3 per
cent sales tax on food goes into
effect tomorrow.
Some food store managers said
there may be a bit more traffic
and some families may stock
staple items such as flour or sugar,
but they don’t expect a big rush.
Managers and owners contacted
by THE NEWS-TIMES Wednesday
said they have not increased their
normal supplies of stock.
With Uic new tax in effect, there
isn’t a thing in a food store that
is tax free. If there is, the store
operators haven’t found out what
it is.
Crip Jones, manager of Red &
White, Beaufort, said, “Every
thing’s got a tax on it.” He doesn’t
expect the impending food lax to
“make much difference” in his
business through today.
A. II. McDonald, manager of
A&P, Morehead City, said that he
doesn’t believe there will be a rush
of business to beat the sales tax.
“People don't get paid until Sat
urday and they're already obligat
ed for nine-tenths of their check
before they get it,” he observed,
so he couldn’t see how they’d have
much money to do a lot of extra
shopping today. -
John StecM, manager of the Co
lonial store, Beaufort, said he
didn’t expect a large amount of
business through today. “People
arc nonchalant about a thing like
the sales tax,” he declared. He
said his store has moved in no
extra stock.
He added that he got a letter
from Colonial headquarters stating
that “ALMOST every article in the
store” is now taxable): but added
that he couldn’t think of Anything
that ISN’T taxable.
E. B. Thompson, manager of Co
lonia, Morehead City, said he be
lieves there will be more traffic i*
the store through today “but not
enough to affect supplies.” He
said people have been mentioning
the sales tax on food, which indi
cates they are aware of it and may
pick up a few items they would
not buy otherwise.
R. A. Barefoot of the Atlantic
See FOOD TAX, Page 8
Port Calendar
Morehead City State Port
Honduras—Arrived Sunday to
take on grain for South Ameri
ca; expected to sail this week
end.
Nicdersachscn—Due Sunday to
load tobacco for Europe, will
probably sail Monday.
Toreador—Due Sunday to load
tobacco for the Far East.
Erlangen — Left Wednesday
after taking on tobacco for Eu
ropean ports.
Kerkedyk — Left Sunday after
loading tobacco cargo for Eu
rope.
night, oil lamps and candles were
used to supply light.
W. C. Carlton, manager of the
Carteret-Craven Electric Member
ship Corp., Morehead City, was at
Ocracoke yesterday. He was in
charge of attempts to get things
back to normal. When that will be
was still a question at press-time
yesterday.
REA personnel from New Bern
are also on the island. They ar
rived early in the week and at
tempted to make repairs but that
is expected to require three weeks.
The island has phone service in
termittently. Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Co. sent men tef the
74 Persons Give Their Opinions
On Whether Gagarin Orbited Earth
By WALTER PHILLIPS
In April, Russia claimed that
Yure Gagarin orbited the earth in
a space vehicle. Was this actually
accomplished or was it a hoax?
Fourteen Carteret residents last
week gave their opinions.
Of the fourteen, seven men and
seven women, eight said the feat
was actually accomplished, five
said it was a hoax and one, a sci
entist, gave a “diplomatic an
swer.”
Not committing himself, Dr. T.
R. Rice, head of the government
radiobiological lab, Pivers Island,
said: “Countries behind the Iron
Curtain possess many things they
aren’t willing to cue us in on. And
'Tobacco Queen' Will Sail
Monday from Morehead
m
Miss Emmalee Gaddy, International Tobacco Emissary, is interviewed during an official visit to Can
ada recently. Miss Gaddy is public relations representative for the world tobacco industry.
Marine Rescues
Three Girls
Three girls from Fuquay, rang
ing in age from 9 to 14, were res
cued from rough water in the vi
cinity of Sportsman’s pier on
Bogue Banks at about 1 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon.
Making the rescue was S Sgt.
Vincent Sane, stationed at Cherry
Point. According to witnesses, the
three girls, whose names were not
available, were being pulled by a
strong current into the pilings of
the pier.
They couldn't get to shore. Ser
geant Sane went in after them and
someone threw him a life raft.
Though scratched by being pulled
against the barnacle-covered pil
ings, and thoroughly frightened,
the girls were otherwise all right.
The sergeant was spending the
day at the beach.
Members of the Beaufort and
Morehead City Jaycees met at the
race track Monday night to clean
up after the beauty pageant. They
had a cookout dinner of hamburg
ers.
island early Tuesday and by use
of a battery, phone service was
available on a part time basis.
Mrs. Rondthaler said the phone
company should be complimented
for its efforts to keep the phones
in service.
The major problem yesterday
was getting emergency power
generating units synchronized so
that power flow would be steady
and adequate.
When the power first failed, the
island got word to the Red Cross
at Manteo through the Coast Guard
line. In turn, Civil Defense at
Raleigh was contacted.
Through Mr. Carlton, two 75 kilo
so we have to assume that what
they are telling us is true.”
Delving into the question, he
said, “I would be of the opinion
that they did orbit, but my better
judgment tells me they didn’t.”
Quite sure that the feat was not
accomplished, Mrs. J. R. Morrill
of Morehead City said, “Oh! I do
think it was a hoax . . . there
weren’t any details or pictures.
Yes ... I’m definitely sure it was
a hoax.”
But disagreeing with the above
sentiments, the Rev. Billy Mobley
of the First Baptist church, Beau
fort, thought the Russians accom
plished the feat.
“I vat is the military at the
As Emissary, She Will
Publicize Tobacco Industry
A 20-year-old beauty, Miss<
Emmalee Gaddy, crowned at
Raleigh last October as rep
resentative of the world to
bacco industry, will sail for
Europe from Morehead City
Monday with her mother,
Mrs. T. E. Gaddy.
The sailing was originally sched
uled for today but a change in ship
ping schedules forced postpone
ment.
Miss Gaddy and her mother will
be guests of the Ozean Stinnes line
on a visit to Germany and Turkey.
According to L. C. Bruce, public
relations officer with the State
Ports Authority, tobacco industry
officials overseas have been eager
to have Miss Gaddy, International
Tobacco Emissary, as their guest.
A'German beauty was runner-up to
Miss Gaddy in the contest last fall
to choose a comely representative
of the tobacco industry.
The Gaddys will sail aboard the
Niedersachscn, German cargo ship
See EMISSARY, Page 8
watt portable generators were ob
tained at Cherry Point and taken
to Ocracoke aboard the ferry. Sea
Level, yesterday. Men from the
Morehead City REA plant went
alpng to install (hem. Another
portable unit at Crewe, Va., was
located but was not sent to Oera
coke when the Cherry Point gen
erators were made available
through the courtesy of the Ma
rine ■ Corps.
Mrs. Rondthaler said that no one
lost any motors because of the
power failure. Most of the deep
freezes are able to pull through by
getting power intermittently. The
refrigerated truck owned by Jack
time,” he said, “and the officers
over, me and around me where I
was chaplain thought they accom
plished it.”
Splitting the finite hair were two
barbers in Morehead City. Bar
den Carawan of the Sanitary Bar
ber shop said it has never been
proved to him.
“I’ve never believed it,” he said.
“I believe they tried it, but it
didn’t work out like they hoped it
would, so they put that boy in the
spotlight.”
Taking the other side was Sonny
Cunningham of the Ideal barber
shop, who said, “I imagine they
put him up there. They went to a
See SURVEY, Page S
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June Rainfall
Exceeds 5 Inches
Rainfall during June, which has
been one of the wettest Junes in
recent years, amounted to 5.59
inches according to records of the
Atlantic Beach weather station.
The heaviest single amount was
a 2-inch rainfall early in the month
and the 1-inch rain last week.
Slightly sub-normal temperatures
prevailed throughout the county
during the first part of the week
as the rains began to move out of
the area.
Temperature ranges and wind
directions were recorded as fol
lows by Stainey Davis, Morchead
City weather observer, for the
first three days of the week:
High Low Wind
Monday . 85 70 SW
Tuesday 79 69 SW
Wednesday .79 70 NE
Willis, fish house and store oper
ator, was hooked up close to the
generating plant and in the truck
were placed perishables that peo
ple couldn't save otherwise.
Sound Front inn called Beaufort
airport Tuesday with a request
that ice be flown to the inn, but
bad weather prevented Steve Oak
ley, charter pilot, from making the
trip.
This week's power problem is
the first serious one since the is
land got power in 1938.
Some of the residents feel that
the generating plant is not equip
ped to handle the new, tremendous
load demanded of it since Ocra
coke has become a tourist mccca.
While some of the vacationists
have left the island, most are stay
ing, Mrs. Rondthalcr said. She
said that Fourth of July events,
which start tomorrow, are expect
ed to proceed on schedule.
Tide Table
Tides at the Beaufort Bar
HIGH LOW
Friday, June 30
9:40 a m. 3:39 a.m.
9:57 p.m. 3:46 p.m.
Saturday, July 1
10:40 a.m. 4:26 a.m.
10:56 p.m. 4:37 p.m.
Sunday, July 2
11:39 a.m. 5:16 a.m.
11:54 p.m. 5:32 p.m.
Monday, July 3
12:36 a.m. 6:09 a.m.
6:36 p.m.
Tuesday, July 4
12:51 a.m. 7:10 a.m.
i 1:31p.m. _ __ 7:47 p.m.
11 Cases Heard
In Recorder's
Court Monday
A total of 27 cases were heard
in More head City recorder’s court,
Monday in the heaviest docket in
several months.
Willard D. Knott of Fayetteville
was the defendant in two cases.
He was charged with having no
operator’s license, driving drunk,
improper registration and driving
with a revoked license. Knott
pleaded not guilty to the first
three charges and guilty to the
fourth. A prayer for judgment
was entered and judgment defer
red until July 3. Bond for Knott
was set at $500.
Four defendants charged with
public drunkenness failed to ap
pear and forfeited bonds. They
were Curtis Brinson and Charles
Jones, Morehead City; James
Langdale, Beaufort; and Arthur
Jones, Swansboro. The court is
sued an order for another public
drunkenness offender. Will Owens
of Morehead City, to be brought
in to stand trial in two weeks and
set bond for him at $250. Owens
was called Monday but failed to
appear.
Edward Charles Nelson, New
port, was taxed with court costs
lor failing to stop for a stop sign
and going the wrong way on a
one-way street. Zeb Little John
son, Hookerton, paid $30 and court
costs for careless and reckless
driving.
Guy Roland Dickinson Jr., Beau
fort, was fined $10 and costs for
speeding and Melva Gray Simp
son, Greenville, was found guilty
of having no operator’s license.
She was ordered to pay $25 and
court costs.
Four defendants, all charged
with speeding, forfeited bonds.
They were Ronald Tracy Jordon,
Havelock; Johnie Clifton Mew
combe, Wilson; James David Mur
ray, Morehead City, and Thomas
Joseph Canning, Greenville.
Ruth Long of Morehead City ap
peared before judge Herbert O.
Phillips to answer charges of pub
lic drunkenness. She was given
a 10-day jail sentence suspended
on payment of court costs and six
months good bahavior.
Also drawing a suspended jail
sentence was Roy Edward Bratch
er of Beaufort who was given six
months, suspended on payment of
$200 and costs for having no op
erator’s license and drunk driving.
William C. Wilkins, Morehead
City, paid court costs for having
no insurance. Wilkins was also
charged with failing to display
1961 license plates but was not
prosecuted on this count.
A fine of $100 and court rosts
was levied against Herbert Clif
ford Seitz, Tarawa Terrace, who
was convicted of drunk driving.
Edward Turner Powell, Beaufort,
was also to appear to answer
drunk driving charges but he fail
ed to do so. An order was issued
for him to be brought to (rial in
two weeks and bond for his ap
pearance wt>u set at $500.
| The case against Henry Arthur
Young, Jacksonville, charged with
passing at an intersection, was dis
missed and the case against Rus
sell Ipock, Morehead City, charg
ed with disturbing the peace, was
remanded to juvenile court.
James Briscoe, Morehead City,
was ordered to pay court costs and
honor the check on a worthless
check conviction. John Thomas
White, Morehead City, forfeited
bond on an assault charge.
Also forfeiting bonds were Berta
Bryan Pelletier,' Stella, charged
with driving without lights; Noland
David Schrader, Morehead City,
charged with having no license
plates on trailer; and George Fred
erick Cissna, Cherry Point, charg
ed with running a red light.
Twenty-four cases were continu
ed until next week’s term of court.
Judge Herbert Phillips presided.
Highway Commission
Holds Final Meeting
The State Highway Commission,
at its “farewell" meeting in Ra
leigh yesterday, reaffirmed its de
cision to put the new Morehead
City bridge in the same location
as the present bridge.
But authoritative sources here
commented yesterday that this de- |
cision was reaffirmed without ex
amination of new information on
the bridge, and the new highway
commission, to be appointed by
Governor Sanford, intends to re
examine the decision.
It is anticipated that the new
commission may, after thorough
examination, recommend that the
west end of the bridge be moved
slightly north to Marsh island, to
enable uae of that island for ship