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Motorboat Races in Taylors Creek Added to Derby Plans Photo Ship WHI Open in Town A photography and camera shop, Smiths’ Studio, owned by Charles and Lauee Smith, Beaufort, is now open at 412 Front St., Beaufort. Mr. Lance Smith, who is em ployed by Barbour Marine Supply, Beaufort, reports that his son, Charles, will operate the studio and shop. The studio will specialize in black and white and color por traits, some commercial photog raphy and wedding pictures. The shop will contain facilities for fast handling of the develop ment of film. Photography sup plies will be sold. Charles Smith, operator of the business, is a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography and for the past four years has been associated with The Snap Shop at Havelock. Visitors to the studio during the coming week may register free for a drawing for an 11 by 14-inch black and white portrait. Il..< ► North Carolina’s First Annual ,Crab derby will be a three-day event instead of two, Jbe DuBois, Morehead City chamber manager announces. Mr. DnBois says mo torboat races have been added to extend the activities through Sun day, Aug. 27. The derby begins with- Carteret county preliminary crab race Friday, Aug. 25, at 2 p.m. at JiB square on the More head waterfront. COBRA (Carteret Outboard' Rac ing Association), wiH sponsor the motorboat races on Taylor’s creek in nearby Beaufort. Dorman Couch, racing committee chairman, said there will be both outborfrd and inboard-powered boat races. For the inboards, there will be no limit, either for the number of horse power or length of hull. Trophies Will be awarded first and second place winners. Outboard races will be divided into three classes: 20 to 40 horse power engines, 40 to 60 horsepower and 60 to 80 horsepower. Only stock boats and stock engines may enter. No racing hull or racing engine will be eligible. First and second place trophies will be awarded in each class. Boat clubs and individual boat owners in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina are invited to enter. An entrance fee of $2 will be required for each class. The entire crab derby program now includes an acrobatic water ski show from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, on the Morehead City waterfront with the crowning of Miss Seafood Queen to follow. The first annual crab derby will begin at 2 p.m., and wBl feature 12 crabs, one from each of the state's 12 crab-producing counties, racing down an inclined track. Sailboat races on Bogue sound at 4 o'clock, will conclude Satur day’s program. The motorboat races will be the only feature oa Sunday’s agenda. In conjunction with the derby there will be a Crab-Fish Angling contest Friday and Saturday on Bogue banks’ seven ocean fishing piers. First, second and third prizes of $50, $25 and $12.50 will be awarded to the fishermen catching the larg est crabs and fish while “bottom fishing” at any of the following piers: Triple Ess, Oceanana, Sportsman’s, Morehead Ocean, Iron Steamer, Thompson’s Emer ald Island and Bogue Inlet. Of the $7.5 billion spent for to bacco products last year, nearly $3 billion was for direct excise taxes. • Ugfeif tastafl* Officer* r-grSr-7-ar-ra Officers of the Beaufort and More he ad City Aimer teaw tsgfca Forts were installed in ceremonies Mon* day night at the Sanitary restaurant. Standing Haft t» right in the front row are David Modlin, Harry Edwards, Curtis Modlin, Alan IWh, WflRsm K. Watte and Mash G. McKee, Raleigh, department ad jutant. Standing in the rear art Ben Until, Rasper Gurganas, Walton Fulcher and David A. Hill. Swansboro Aug. 12—The Women’s Missien ary society of the First Baptist church met Thursday morning for a mission study class at the home of Mrs. W. C. Bryan, who taught the book, Sharing Christian Pos sessions. Each member brought a covered dish for lunch. Mrs. Cecil Morton was hostess to the Julia Pittman circle of the First Baptist church Wednesday morning. Everyone brought a cov ered dish for lunch. The Trixie Freeman circle of First Baptist church met with Mrs. Charles Odom Tuesday night. The primary Sunday school de partment of First Baptist church will meet at the church Saturday at 3:30 for a social. Parents are urged to bring their children. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. If. If. Winstead are her mother and niece, Mrs. A. C. Jackson and County Gets Money Carteret’s share of the state’s in tangibles tax for 1960 is $27,549. The checks are being distributed by the state .department of reve nue. The intangibles tax is a tax on worth of securities held by indi viduals as of Jan. 1 of each year. Teresa Culbreth, of Greenville. Tuesday night at 7:30 the Swans boro volunteer firemen will meet at the American Legion building. 'Poor Lack' Boaters Keep Coast Guardsmen Bustling. Cpast Guard personae! from the Fort Macon station kept busy Sun day assisting six vessels in trouble. One assist was made on Saturday. An 18-foot outboard owned by David Davenport of Rocky Mount experienced engine failure at 8:40 p.m. Saturday near light 34, New port marshes. Five persons wfere aboard. The Coast Guard 40-footer towed the boat to Anchorage marina, At lantic Beach. Crew of the 40-foot er was Howard Jones, BM1; Hal sey Paul, SN; and Jimmy Goff, FA. At 7:35 a.m. Sunday the 40-foot er aided the 23-foot cruiser, Nan, which had engine failure half a mile south of Triple Ess pier. Charles Wallin Jr., Raleigh, was the operator. Jones, Lenton Lewis, SN; and Harold Snipes, EN1, towed the dis abled craft to Cannon’s boatworks. En route to Cannon’s they sight ed a boat aground near light 9 in Bogue Sound. After mooring the Nan, they returned to assist the 28-foot cruiser, Terry ni. They refloated her at 10:10 a.m. George T. Barnes of Elm City, the owner, and one other person were aboard. While the 40-footer was assisting the Nan and Terry III, a call was received at the station stating that a Hhfoot outboard, tvy W, was aground on the ocean side of of Shackleford Banks. The 34-footer from Fort Macon refloated the outboard at 11:50 a.m. John Wooten Sr. of Kinston was the only person aboard. At 4:35 p.m. a 30-foot eaMn cruis er ran aground near Core Creek front range light 24. The 40-footer refloated her at 5:20 p.m. ahd es corted her to Russell’s railways, More head City. In addition to the owner, Joaquin Alvarez of Waynesboro, Pa., three persons were aboard. Jones, Snipes and Paul made the assist. A 19-foot outboard had engine failure a hundred yards off the beach two miles west of the sta tion at 5:15 p.m. Sunday. The 40-footer, arriving on the scene, found that the boat had sunk in the surf, but that the four persons aboard were safe on the beach. The 40-footer, unable to help, re turned to the station and the Coast Guard truck was dispatched. At 7 p.m. the truck pulled the boat out of the water, to the beach. Don Cobb of Goldsboro was op erating the boat, owned by the F. K. Borden farm, Goldsboro. The 41-foot partyboat Blue Wa ter experienced engine failure at Shackleford Banks Sunday night at 10:45. The 40-footer towed her to Morehead City. Making the assist were Jones, Lewis, Goff and Richard Johnson, SN. Seventeen persons were ^aboard. * For Opening A Savings Account Of $100.00 Or More, Or Adding This Amount To Your Account Beginning August 14, 1961 ■** * u nrf>i il i ~ ijrai ii A LIMIT ONE GIFT PER FAMILY ... This Hamisom* 15-Piece Modern "Punch Bowl" Sot JL II * -t- • - - > -I L, aL^ IAaL ^ , L, m—aL Mi fWflOl RTWIviO PJr fHw IWIV OT 9QCVT mwvnf •am chvidends from tho 1st of that month, AK invosfmonts of $100.00 or moro made aftor tho 10th oom dividonds from tho doto of investment. 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